Text_IO Facilities for Unbounded Strings

The package Ada.Strings.Unbounded.Text_IO in library files a-suteio.ads/adb contains some GNAT-specific subprograms useful for Text_IO operations on unbounded strings:

• function Get_Line (File : File_Type) return Unbounded_String; Reads a line from the specified file and returns the result as an unbounded string.
• procedure Put (File : File_Type; U : Unbounded_String); Writes the value of the given unbounded string to the specified file Similar to the effect of Put (To_String (U)) except that an extra copy is avoided.
• procedure Put_Line (File : File_Type; U : Unbounded_String); Writes the value of the given unbounded string to the specified file, followed by a New_Line. Similar to the effect of Put_Line (To_String (U)) except that an extra copy is avoided.

In the above procedures, File is of type Ada.Text_IO.File_Type and is optional. If the parameter is omitted, then the standard input or output file is referenced as appropriate.

The package Ada.Strings.Wide_Unbounded.Wide_Text_IO in library files a-swuwti.ads/adb provides similar extended Wide_Text_IO functionality for unbounded wide strings.