Re: Text Processing in Ada 95

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Rob Norris <firstname.lastname@baesystems.com> writes:

> On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:09:09 +0000, Rob Norris
> <firstname.lastname@baesystems.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Suppose I have a text file such as:
>>
> <cut>
>
> Thanks everyone for the input.
> I suspected as much that I would have to do some stream_io.
>
> Unfortunately I can't do things any other way. The requirement is
> for a text file :(

Just be cause the file is "text" on the disk, doesn't mean you have to
use Ada.Text_IO to read and write it. 

Ada.Stream_IO reads and writes "text" files perfectly well. 

If you were writing this program in C, you would have no choice other
than the C equivalent of Ada.Stream_IO, and no one would claim you
were not using "text" files.

And what is a "text" file, precisely?

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