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From: "Matthew Heaney" <mheaney@on2.com>
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Subject: Re: Newbie question on Ada TExt_IO
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:50:13 -0400
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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.