From: engelbert_buxbaum@hotmail.com   
      
   Bill Leary wrote:   
      
      
   > That's not what he's trying to get around.  Using the C standard library, I   
   can   
   > "fopen" then do fgets or (if the particular library has it) "fgetline" to   
   read a   
   > line then follow it up with a "fgetc" to read a few characters then   
   "fgetline"   
   > again and so on.  That is, I *can* read lines and characters interchangably   
   and   
   > the library keeps track of it all.   
      
   But what would be the difficulty doing this in Pascal: you Read(f, c)   
   some caracters, then do a ReadLn(f, s) (f being of type file, c of type   
   char and s of type string). I have done that sort of thing several times   
   in cases where the begining of a line contained info to be parsed, and   
   the reminder was either dumped or just copied without further action. Of   
   course ReadLn makes sense only for textfiles, but that is a logical   
   limitation, not one of the programming language.   
      
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