Re: Weird behavior of Get character with trailing new lines.

[Blady <p.p11@orange.fr>]

Le 24/09/2023 à 09:50, Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
> On 2023-09-23 16:03, Niklas Holsti wrote:
>> On 2023-09-23 10:02, J-P. Rosen wrote: >>> Le 22/09/2023 à 22:05, Jeffrey R.Carter a écrit :>>>> 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.

Thanks all for your helpful answers.

It actually helps.

Especially, I was not aware of the particular behavior of End_Of_File 
with a single line terminator before the file terminator.

In my case, I prefer to reserve exceptions for exceptional situations 
:-) so I've took the code from Niklas example.

Regards, Pascal.