reading a text file into a string

From: zork (zork_at_nospam.com)
Date: 07/15/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:27:57 +1000

hi, i would like to read a whole text file into a string. I thought of using
an unbounded_string for this:

----------
c, char: character;
text : unbounded_string;
...
-- read in text file
while not end_of_file ( File ) loop
    Get ( File, c );
    append ( text, c );
end loop;
...
put ( to_string ( text ) ); -- display content of unbounded_string

-- process text
for i in 1 .. length ( text ) loop
  char := element ( text, i );
  ...
end loop;
-----------

... is this the general way of going about it? or is there a more prefered
method of reading in a whole text file (into whatever format) for
processing?

Thanks again!

cheers,
zork

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