From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,607df69a3c572a07 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) Subject: Re: No FAQ? A stupid question, then? Date: 1998/12/01 Message-ID: <36634a19.29960456@news.pacbell.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 417308786 References: <365E787B.896BFA0C@eucmax.sim.ucm.es> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.snfc21.pbi.net 912477000 206.170.2.150 (Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:50:00 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:50:00 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >get the string expression of integer >and real numbers This exact question was answered here a couple of weeks ago, and I see it's been answered again. www.dejanews.com keeps comp.lang.ada and would be a good place to look for this sort of thing. Using an attribute is admittedly non-obvious, but, by analogy to sprintf, you could look at ada.text_io and see that one form of Put takes a string, rather than a file, as its destination.