What is the Ada command line redirector that is analogous to “>”?

Question

Ada noob here (and also not so hot with the command line in general). I am looking for the Ada command line redirector that would be analogous to \">\" in DOS.

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Answer 1

The package Ada.Command_Line is for receiving command line arguments, when an Ada program starts. What you are interested in is most likely Ada.Text_IO (chapter A.10 in the RM).

More specifically, you will need to declare a variable for representing the file you are going to redirect standard output to:

Redirection : Ada.Text_IO.File_Type;

Then create and open it:

Ada.Text_IO.Create (File => Redirection,
                    Name => "latin.words",
                    Mode => Ada.Text_IO.Out_File);

Finally you can redirect standard output:

Ada.Text_IO.Set_Output (File => Redirection);