From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: variable lenght strings
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 16:52:24 -0500
Date: 2004-10-29T16:52:24-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EuqdnfTh9oXdJh_cRVn-2Q@megapath.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 39q24nDZNOOB@eisner.encompasserve.org
"Larry Kilgallen" <Kilgallen@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
news:39q24nDZNOOB@eisner.encompasserve.org...
> In article <o-CdnddJwfPP6hzcRVn-pw@megapath.net>, "Randy Brukardt"
<randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
>
> > Huh? A null line without a line terminator would be indistinguishable
from a
> > line terminator at the end of a file. So it is perfectly reasonable for
an
> > implementation to treat this as reading past the end of a file
(Janus/Ada
> > certainly does too). Indeed, I'd argue that it is impossible for there
to be
> > a null line without a line terminator at the end of a file.
>
> So on this general subject, how do implementations which use a special
> character for line termination handle the situation where that character
> is in the middle of a line ? Is there a special escape character to
> mean "the next character is real" ? Is that special escape character
> the same for all implementations ?
There's no requirement that the line terminator character(s) (if that's how
its done) be allowed in the middle of a line. A.10(8) says that the effect
of Get or Put of control characters other than TAB is not specified by the
language. So Put(LF) can be read as a line terminator, or raise
Program_Error, or whatever.
Randy.
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Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-21 17:52 variable lenght strings fabio de francesco
2004-10-21 21:22 ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-21 22:42 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-21 23:14 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-22 7:38 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-22 12:30 ` fabio de francesco
2004-10-22 7:29 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-22 13:01 ` Matthew Heaney
2004-10-24 15:46 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-24 19:54 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-24 21:30 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-25 4:02 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-21 23:01 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-21 23:05 ` Stephen Leake
2004-10-22 7:25 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-22 11:11 ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-24 15:43 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-24 17:39 ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-24 18:37 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-25 7:30 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-26 0:06 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-10-26 1:53 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-26 8:49 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-26 11:18 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-10-26 12:48 ` variable length strings Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-26 16:11 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-10-26 18:50 ` Björn Persson
2004-10-26 19:46 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-26 8:43 ` variable lenght strings Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-10-26 13:15 ` Martin Krischik
2004-10-26 17:37 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-26 18:07 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-10-26 20:10 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-27 10:26 ` variable length strings Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-27 10:39 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-27 11:47 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-28 7:18 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-10-27 11:50 ` Larry Kilgallen
[not found] ` <uwtxcla1n.fsf@obry.Organization: LJK Software <PTzuwe3GsIg6@eisner.encompasserve.org>
2004-10-27 12:12 ` Samuel Tardieu
2004-10-27 12:58 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-27 13:04 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-27 14:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-27 16:38 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-28 8:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-28 8:49 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-28 9:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-28 16:07 ` Pascal Obry
2004-10-28 22:05 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-28 22:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-10-29 1:11 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-29 7:42 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-10-28 10:31 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-26 18:13 ` variable lenght strings Martin Krischik
2004-10-27 12:01 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2004-10-26 17:46 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-10-28 22:50 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-10-28 23:01 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-29 21:52 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2004-10-29 8:48 ` Dale Stanbrough
2004-10-29 9:11 ` Larry Kilgallen
2004-10-24 18:38 ` Why these "Drop" parameters? (was: variable lenght strings) Björn Persson
2004-10-26 0:13 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-11-01 1:02 ` Why these "Drop" parameters? Björn Persson
2004-11-01 19:59 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-10-24 18:57 ` variable lenght strings Jeffrey Carter
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