From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,e219d94b946dfc26 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,CP1252 Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s21.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards References: <45dcaed8_6@news.bluewin.ch> <1172132169.423514.271890@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s21 1172425820 12.201.97.213 (Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:50:20 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:50:20 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:50:20 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9533 Date: 2007-02-25T17:50:20+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > > By the way, Ada 2005 has a function Get_Line that returns type String. Finally. How to do this was 1st published in Carter, J. R., �Variable-Length String Input in Ada,� /Ada Letters/, 1989 May/Jun (Ada 83) and available as part of the PragmAda Reusable Components since about 1990, though I presume many people had figured it out before I did. -- Jeff Carter "When Roman engineers built a bridge, they had to stand under it while the first legion marched across. If programmers today worked under similar ground rules, they might well find themselves getting much more interested in Ada!" Robert Dewar 62