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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
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Subject: Re: string input
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 09:33:24 +0000 (UTC)
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* Mark Lundquist wrote:
>"Robert Dewar" <dewar@gnat.com> wrote in message
>> Note that if you are using GNAT, the function
>> Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Get_Line is very convenient
>> for reading strings of varying length.
>
>I believe it's Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Text_Io.Get_Line

GNAT tends to use recursion, which is known to genereate problems.
 Problematic version:
   http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/ada/reverse_line_tokens__adb.htm
 Scalable version:
   http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/ada/shuffle_text_tokens__adb.htm