Date sent: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 19:13:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Sterling Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org
Subject: [fpc-devel] Patch for bug 2453
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> First, BP ignores non-numeric characters when a ReadLn is called with
> an integer parameter. To fix this, I changed ReadNumeric's end
> condition to explicitly terminate on all non-numerics.
This isn't really correct - only characters < ' ' should be treated
as delimiters (as already mentioned in the bug report).
> Second, BP will not read a Text file past an EOF character at all,
> regardless of its location in the file. The fix for this is inelegant
> (inline buffer check), but I can move this out to an external proc if
> it's onerous to maintain.
I slightly modified your patch (we decided to change the conditional
define to a variable, because this allows users to override the
default if needed), extended it for handling of #26 in some other
routines and applied it, thanks!
Tomas
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