Beginning Ada Programming: From Novice to Professional

© Andrew T. Shvets 2020

A. T. ShvetsBeginning Ada Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5428-8_8

8. The Basics of I/O and Interacting with the Operating System

Andrew T. Shvets¹ 

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Providence, RI, USA

 

What You Will Get Out of This Chapter

Having an application crunch numbers and catch exceptions is nice. However, it is very limiting. Without being able to interact with the outside world, you might as well have something that exists only in a bubble and is of limited use at best. In this chapter the goal is to explain how your application will work outside the scope of its running process.

Here is what we will cover:

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   How to read and write text files. You will find out how to import the contents of a file and work with it in a way that is ...