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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: I/O - exception handling
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 12:01:03 +0000 (UTC)
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* Preben Randhol wrote:
>    procedure One_Of_Your_Procedures_That_Open_Files 
>    is
>    begin
>       Open (File, Name => "test.txt", Mode => In_File);
>       Get_Line (File, S1);
>       Get_Line (File, S2);
> 
>       Safe_Close (File);
>    exception
>       when others =>
>          Safe_Close (File);
>    end Read_Something;
> 
> Now you can use the Safe_Close in any function you like.

Why not:

    procedure Read_Something is
       File : File_Type;
    begin
       Open (File, Name => "test.txt", Mode => In_File);
       
       declare
          S1, S2 : String (1 .. 90);
       begin
          Get_Line (File, S1);
          Get_Line (File, S2);
       exception
          when others => Print_Line("ERROR!");
       end;
       
       Close (File);
    exception
       when others => Print_Line("ERROR!");
    end Read_Something;

Close will not be called if Open failed.