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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: why do i need an extra carridge return?
Message-ID: <5448@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 30 Apr 91 02:17:44 GMT
References: <9104262300.AA24421@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <9104262300.AA24421@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca>, delingma@THUNDER.LAKEHEADU.CA writes:
> I am trying to get a function built that will terminate
> after reading some stuff followed by a carridge return.
> I can make it work for ANY other character, but not a CR.

Why carriage returns (there is no d in "carriage")?
What programming language are you using?
What implementation of it?
What operating system?
Have you checked your manual to see what character or characters
appears at the end of a line?
If you are using a Prolog system on a PC, there is a good chance
that lines are terminated by line feed characters (LF = 10) and
that carriage returns are stripped out so that you never see them.
(Note that the Common Lisp and Scheme definitions *demand* that
lines appear to be terminated by a single #\Newline character,
whatever that is.)

Any good Prolog textbook will tell you how to read a line of
characters.  Mine does.

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