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From: Rob Norris <firstname.lastname@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Text Processing in Ada 95
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:11:48 +0000
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On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:51:23 -0500, Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> wrote:

>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 :(

I think I meant in some direct_io way would not make it easier.

>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?

Well quite, the file is just a bunch of bytes that when interpretated as ASCII format gives
something humanly readable.