Re: read shows surprising results

Dirk Weber wrote:
> schrieb marcov@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>> I think he meant the trick is that you can construct your own
>> input validation that way, and that a mistake of the user doesn't
>> lead to a runtime error.
> 
> I am afraid you are right. But at the moment I don't have an idea
> how to do that. But I am sure I will find out later on. At the
> moment that doesn't worry me too much, I am still at teh very
> beginning.

Just steal the parsing code from txtfiles.pas (zip).  I long ago
put it in the public domain.

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