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From: "Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com>
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Subject: Re: string input
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:11:54 -0500
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<kotee@ludens.elte.hu> wrote in message news:GhByriDlSyh1@ludens...
> helo
>
> what can i do if i wanna read user input to a string with
> length short (i wanna do it in loop), and user write a
> very long string. if it happens the next and the next...
> input is filled with that trash of first input...

You can either use a loop, and copy the short string into a longer buffer
(say, an Unbounded_String); or, you could use a recursive solution.

The idiom for reading lines of text in Ada is:

declare
   Line : String (1 .. 10); --say
  Last : Natural;
begin
  loop
     Text_IO.Get_Line (Line, Last);
     <copy Line to an Unbounded_String>
     exit when Last < Line'Last;
   end loop;
end;

That should give you enough info to get started.