Re: Putting a 'Duration' on the screen ?

[Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>]

Ada.Float_Text_IO doesn't work because Duration is not a floating point
type. It is a fixed point type. You've got two choices here:

with Ada.Text_IO.Fixed_IO ;
procedure Blah_Blah_Blah is
    package
        My_Fixed_IO
    is new
        Ada.Text_IO.Fixed_IO (
            Num => Duration) ;
    --  After this, you have a procedure My_Fixed_IO.Put you can call...
...
...
...
*OR*

Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line ("Current Duration: " & Duration'Image (X)) ;

where X above is declared to be of type Duration. The numeric types have
the 'Image attribute which will return a string. See the ARM 3.5 (35)
for a definition.

Hope this helps.

MDC


Emmanuel Lambert wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am freaking out because I would like to output a variable from type
> Duration to the screen, but it does not work with put(...). I have
> included Ada.Float_Text_Io, but that does not help. Can someone give me
> a hint. I a unable to find good documentation on this.
> 
> Thanks
> Emmanuel Lambert

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