Re: variable lenght strings

[Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Martin Krischik a écrit :

> Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:

>>In all my programs, I simply never check for End_Of_File, I catch
>>End_Error instead. It is simpler in other cases too: if you read
>>numbers, and the file is terminated with blank lines, you can get
>>End_Error even when End_Of_File is false.
> 
> 
> Well you could create a Get_Line with End_Error too. But I like to see where
> the "easier" part comes into play:
> [snip] 

I think you missed the point; I was talking about reading *numbers*.
In that case, End_Of_File is of no use, because Get will skip any number 
of line terminators,
and may well hit an End_Of_File.

Catching End_Of_File is a lot easier than skipping all the line 
terminators before reading a number


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