Re: Problem with Unbounded Strings

[Laurent <lutgenl@icloud.com>]

On Friday, 4 December 2015 23:28:46 UTC+1, Jeffrey R. Carter  wrote:

> One possible explanation is that your file was produced by a Windows system, and
> you're running your program on a Unix-based platform. In that case, Get_Line
> will return a string with a CR at the end. When displayed, the CR will return
> the cursor to the beginning of the line. So you begin by outputting

Bingo. The real log file is from a windows system. The simplified file I have made on my mac but with BBEdit. For some reason it also used the windows line endings? After changing that everything works as expected. Should have checked that first. I had already once a problem with that I think. Otherwise I wouldn't have put the "file" and "od -c" command into a txt file with an explanation.

Is there no function in the text io libraries to check which line endings are used?

Thanks