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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.org>
Date: 28 Oct 2004 10:49:14 +0200
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> You (Get_Line) just push the problem to the user, who will write:
> 
> declare
>    Buffer : String (1..?);
>    Length : Integer;
> begin
>    Get_Line (Buffer, Length);
> 
> 1) Buffer is on the stack. 2) Its upper bound is unknown except for very
> rare cases. The requirements usually as helpful as "it should work with
> reasonable files". Go figure out the upper bound!

You missed it ! Please have a look at the Get_Line documentation.

Pascal.

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