From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: altering number of significant figures
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:51:59 +0200
Date: 2004-09-28T08:51:59+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2252146.BIGUFPfHef@linux1.krischik.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4158fd82@dnews.tpgi.com.au
David Peterson wrote:
> Hi, sorry for this stupid question, but i can not seem to find out how to
> do it. Suppose i define:
>
>
> myfloat : float := 1234.5678;
> screen_display("value = " & float'image(myfloat));
>
>
> ... where screen_display() prints out the content passed to it, to
> standard output.
>
> However I do not know how to only print only the first 2 (for example)
> decimal places of myfloat.
>
> The above will print "value = 1234.5678". However I want "value =
> 1234.56".
>
> I know there is a simple solution to this, but i cant find it. Using
> Barnes to learn from.
The answer is: Ada.Text_IO.Float_IO
It's quite straight foreward - The only supprise is that Fload_IO is
embedded in Ada.Text_IO and not separate.
With Regards
Martin
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-28 5:59 altering number of significant figures David Peterson
2004-09-28 6:41 ` tmoran
2004-09-28 6:51 ` Martin Krischik [this message]
2004-09-28 17:58 ` Jeffrey Carter
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2004-09-28 6:52 Christoph Karl Walter Grein
2004-09-28 10:26 ` David Peterson
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