Re: Newbie question on Ada TExt_IO

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

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:55:08 -0400, Matthew Heaney wrote:
> 
> "Preben Randhol" <randhol+news@pvv.org> wrote in message
> news:slrnapp7f6.45u.randhol+news@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no...
>>
>> No I would have used exceptions here. I find it difficult to see how you
>> can avoid it.
> 
> The issue is that if there's an error, the bad input doesn't get consumed.
> You have to remember to call Skip_Line, so you might as well call Get_Line
> instead.

I don't understand, I did use Get_Line in my code. I can see a couple of
problems though. I defined the String from only 1 to 80 so if you input
a string above 80 characters it will be split. I also should have
checked if the Last > 1 because one could give 1000 and the program
would accept it as 1, but I left this for the reader :-)

I wasn't refering to Get I was saying that I would use exceptions and I
have a bit problems with seeing a solution where you do not have any
exception handling when you expect user input.

Or in other words if you are dealing with a human then expect exceptions
;-)

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