Re: Problem with Unbounded Strings

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message 
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> On 12/04/2015 04:35 PM, Laurent wrote:
>>
>> Is there no function in the text io libraries to check which line endings 
>> are used?
>
> Afraid not. If you're processing files from several platforms, you can 
> check for
> and trim off a CR at the end. This will work with files from either 
> platform.

It also depends on your vendor's implementation of Text_IO. For Janus/Ada, 
we treated LF as the line ending and discard a single CR preceding it (if 
one exists). That way, we didn't have to have separate versions of 
Text_IO.Get_Line for the different platforms, and it essentially 
auto-converts between them. (Of course, Text_IO.Put_Line has to output 
different line terminators on the different platforms.) IMHO, this the best 
approach for Text_IO, but it does have one drawback...

> However, all bets are off if you might get a file with the old Mac CR line
> terminators. I worked on a system that used the Get_Line function and 
> dealt with
> CRs as above since many of the files we processed were produced on Windows
> systems. One day we got a 5-MB file saved with CRs for line terminators.
> Get_Line attempted to read a 5-MB line. That was not pretty.

..and that's it. Doesn't seem worse than any other possibility, though.

                                   Randy.