Re: Ada communicating with other programs

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 23:14:07 GMT, tmoran@acm.org wrote:
>> > It is very easy to do it in Ada, but do expect a big number of lines.  If
>> Why not use the regex capabilities of GNAT?
>   The original post indicated the data was of the form:
> Day,Time,Val1,Val2
> 01:23:2001,12:23:34,2.3445,233.34
> so Day and Time appear to be fixed fields and the other values could be
> gotten using Text_IO.Get, with Last pointing just before the comma at
> the end of a number.  It really shouldn't require very many lines of
> code, let alone PERL or regex, to parse that!

Yes if the format is fixed it should not be a problem.

Preben
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