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From: Gautier.DeMontmollin@maths.unine.ch (Gautier)
Subject: Re: Help!! Writing binary bit by bit
Date: 1997/04/16
Message-ID: <1997Apr16.122335.5880@news>#1/1
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Organization: University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Reply-To: Gautier.deMontmollin@Maths.UniNe.CH
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Date: 1997-04-16T00:00:00+00:00
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> Is there any sort of IO that i'm not familiar with that gives the programmer 
> control over how many bits are written, and exactly what bits those are 
> (0's or 1's)? That is the only way I see to translate without having an IO 
> package translate for me.

For input, the format 2#0010010101110# should work (2=base; a std format in Ada)
For output, type <<Put(n,base=>2);>> or something like that.
Since you can use <<Put>> to write into a string, you can control all that.

> If I wanted to write 001101, and that's all, not the binary equvalent for
> each digit. If I wanted to write one binary digit at a time, is it possible,
> or is there a more appropriate place to find out?
> 
> I appreciate any and all input!!
> 
> -
> e-mail   :  mcgreal@cs.wvu.edu