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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: altering number of significant figures
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:51:59 +0200
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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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