Ada: Adding an exception in a separate procedure when reading a file
- by yCalleecharan
This is a follow-up of this question: Ada: reading from a file .
I would like to add an exception that checks if the file that I'm opening actually exists or not. I have made a separate procedure to avoid code clutter.
Here is the main code test_read.adb:
with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
with Ada.Long_Float_Text_IO;
with Ada.Float_Text_IO;
procedure Test_Read is
Input_File : File_Type;
Value : Long_Float;
procedure Open_Data (File : in Ada.Text_IO.File_Type; Name : in String) is separate;
begin
Ada.Text_IO.Open (File => Input_File, Mode => Ada.Text_IO.In_File, Name => "fx.txt");
while not End_Of_File (Input_File) loop
Ada.Long_Float_Text_IO.Get (File => Input_File, Item => Value);
Ada.Long_Float_Text_IO.Put (Item => value, Fore => 3, Aft => 5, Exp => 0);
Ada.Text_IO.New_Line;
end loop;
Ada.Text_IO.Close (File => Input_File);
end Test_Read;
And here is the separate body test_read-open_data.adb of the procedure Open_Data:
separate(test_read)
procedure Open_Data (File : in Ada.Text_IO.File_Type;
Name : in String) is
--this procedure prepares a file for reading
begin
begin
Ada.Text_IO.Open
(File => File,
Mode => Ada.Text_IO.In_File,
Name => Name);
exception
when Ada.Text_IO.Name_Error =>
Ada.Text_IO.Put(File => Standard_Error, Item => "File not found.");
end;
end Open_Data;
On compilation I get an error message in the separate body test_read-open_data.adb:
actual for "File" must be a variable
How to fix this?
Thanks a lot...