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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: variable lenght strings
Date: 24 Oct 2004 16:30:57 -0500
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In article <hMTed.5827$KJ6.5159@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>, Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com> writes:
> Martin Krischik wrote:
> 
>> When the last line is missing a CR/LF - happens often in user edited
>> files - and is a multiple of the internal buffer in lenght then an
>> exception is raised.
> 
> Get_Line is specified in A.10.7:
> 
> Reads successive characters from the specified input file and assigns
> them to successive characters of the specified string. Reading stops if
> the end of the string is met. Reading also stops if the end of the line
> is met before meeting the end of the string; in this case Skip_Line is
> (in effect) called with a spacing of 1.
> 
> The end of the line seems to be specified in A.10.5, for End_Of_Line:
> 
> Operates on a file of mode In_File. Returns True if a line terminator or
> a file terminator is next; otherwise returns False.
> 
> Thus a missing line terminator (CR/LF for DOS/Windows) at the end of a
> file should be interpreted as end of line anyway, it seems, and any
> compiler which doesn't seems to have an error.

But that would be specific to DOS/Windows.

Is someone arguing that a carriage-return or line feed is supposed
to be the implementation for "the end of line is met" in the section
quoted above ?  Certainly that was not the case for Ada83 on VMS,
where there is an out-of-band end of line indication.