From: "Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com>
Subject: Re: Newbie question on Ada TExt_IO
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:50:13 -0400
Date: 2002-10-03T14:50:13-04:00 [thread overview]
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"Justin" <jbirtwell@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I'm doing TextIO from the command prompt. But I'm having difficulty
> validating the input. For example I'm asking the user to enter a
> number, let's say I'm expecting an integer between 1 and 6
I recommend that you do *not* use Get to consume the value. Instead, use
Get_Line to consume the entire line, and then either use Integer'Value to
convert the text to an integer, or use the version of Get that reads from a
string buffer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-03 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-03 18:20 Newbie question on Ada TExt_IO Justin
2002-10-03 18:50 ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
2002-10-03 19:05 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-03 19:35 ` David C. Hoos
2002-10-03 19:35 ` tmoran
2002-10-03 19:43 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-03 19:55 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-10-03 20:07 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-04 2:42 ` SteveD
2002-10-04 17:49 ` Justin Birtwell
2002-10-04 18:00 ` David C. Hoos
2002-10-04 18:04 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-04 18:00 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-04 18:02 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-04 18:34 ` tmoran
2002-10-04 17:34 ` Justin Birtwell
2002-10-04 17:58 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-04 18:13 ` tmoran
2002-10-04 20:07 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-07 8:26 ` Fraser Wilson
2002-10-07 19:44 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-10-05 2:43 ` SteveD
2002-10-05 5:25 ` tmoran
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2002-10-07 6:01 Grein, Christoph
2002-10-07 8:27 Grein, Christoph
2002-10-07 11:48 ` Fraser Wilson
2002-10-07 12:46 ` Robert A Duff
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