The following subprograms help deal with end of line and end of file:
As with the Get and Put operations, put a File_Type as the first parameter with these routines if you want to work with a given file, or you'll use the default Current_Input and Current_Output. For example, if you're reading from Startup_File (a variable of type File_Type), you can check for the end of the file by checking "End_Of_File(Startup_File)".
These subprograms are quite useful without being passed any parameters. Note that in Ada, if you call a subprogram but don't want to pass it any parameters, don't include the parentheses() after the name of the subprogram (this is a slightly different syntax than in C and C++).
Here's another demo program, one that only prints ``long'' lines. This demo program illustrates a very common Ada idiom - using ``while (not End_Of_File)'', which processes an entire input file.
If you want to discard the rest of a line of input, what subprogram would you use?
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David A. Wheeler (dwheeler@ida.org)
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