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Subject: Re: Weird behavior of Get character with trailing new lines.
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On 2023-09-22 21:30, Blady wrote:
> 
> A.10.7 Input-Output of Characters and Strings
> For an item of type Character the following procedures are provided:
> procedure Get(File : in File_Type; Item : out Character);
> procedure Get(Item : out Character);
> After skipping any line terminators and any page terminators, reads the next 
> character from the specified input file and returns the value of this character 
> in the out parameter Item.
> The exception End_Error is propagated if an attempt is made to skip a file 
> terminator.

As you have quoted, Get (Character) skips line terminators. End_Of_File returns 
True if there is a single line terminator before the file terminator, but False 
if there are multiple line terminators before the file terminator. So you either 
have to explicitly skip line terminators, or handle End_Error.

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Jeff Carter
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