* Heeeeeeeeelp!!!!
@ 1996-03-21 0:00 R.A. Lawrence
1996-03-22 0:00 ` Heeeeeeeeelp!!!! Paul Whittington
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From: R.A. Lawrence @ 1996-03-21 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Right - a couple of easy peasy questions for you ada gurus out there:
Im rewriting an old program of mine to be used at university. Every Unix
machine has a user id number which can be easily found to which i want to
write a program called `xtwhere` which tells you which lab that computer
with that id number is located.
(1) I want people to be able to type:
xtwhere <machine_id>
to which it runs the program `xtwhere`. How can i find out what the
<machine_id> written was? - an example of this might be
xtwhere xt027
(2) I need to split this <machine_id> into two parts - a text bit (the
`xt`) and the number bit (the '027') - If the answer to (1) returns a
string how can i convert a string into a number?
Please could you mail any suggestions/answers to me as i dont regulary use
this newsgroup.
Regards
Rich.
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* Re: Heeeeeeeeelp!!!!
1996-03-21 0:00 Heeeeeeeeelp!!!! R.A. Lawrence
@ 1996-03-22 0:00 ` Paul Whittington
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From: Paul Whittington @ 1996-03-22 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: R.A. Lawrence
One can convert a string into a number by using Ada 95's "'value"
attribute.
i := integer'value("123");
R.A. Lawrence wrote:
> ... how can i convert a string into a number?
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