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On 2023-09-22 22:30, Blady wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I`m reading a text file with Get character from Text_IO with a while
> loop controlled by End_Of_File.
>
> % cat test_20230922_get_char.adb
> with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
> procedure test_20230922_get_char is
> procedure Get is
> F : File_Type;
> Ch : Character;
> begin
> Open (F, In_File, "test_20230922_get_char.adb");
> while not End_Of_File(F) loop
> Get (F, Ch);
> Put (Ch);
> end loop;
> Close (F);
> Put_Line ("File read with get.");
> end;
> begin
> Get;
> end;
>
>
>
> All will be well, unfortunately not!
>
> Despite the End_Of_File, I got an END_ERROR exception when there are
> several trailing new lines at the end of the text:
>
> % test_20230922_get_char
> with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;procedure test_20230922_get_char is
> procedure Get is F : File_Type; Ch : Character; begin Open
> (F, In_File, "test_20230922_get_char.adb"); while not
> End_Of_File(F) loop Get (F, Ch); Put (Ch); end
> loop; Close (F); Put_Line ("File read with get.");
> end;beginGet;end;
>
> Execution of ../bin/test_20230922_get_char terminated by unhandled
> exception
> raised ADA.IO_EXCEPTIONS.END_ERROR : a-textio.adb:517
>
> The code is compiled with GNAT, does it comply with the standard?
>
> A.10.7 Input-Output of Characters and Strings
> For an item of type Character the following procedures are provided:
> procedure Get(File : in File_Type; Item : out Character);
> procedure Get(Item : out Character);
> After skipping any line terminators and any page terminators, reads the
> next character from the specified input file and returns the value of
> this character in the out parameter Item.
> The exception End_Error is propagated if an attempt is made to skip a
> file terminator.
>
> This seems to be the case, then how to avoid the exception?
In Text_IO, a line terminator is not an ordinary character, so you must
handle it separately, for example like this:
while not End_Of_File(F) loop
if End_Of_Line(F) then
New_Line;
Skip_Line(F);
else
Get (F, Ch);
Put (Ch);
end if;
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