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From: Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>
Subject: Re: Float to string conversion
Date: 1999/03/18
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dd5372@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> 
> I'm using Rapid to build a GUI interface for a simple demo program and need to
> be able to convert float values to strings.  Using the 'image property is okay
> for integers, but using it on floats gives me the default Ada scientific
> notation for floats.  Any suggestions?
> 
You'll want to investigate Ada.Text_IO.Float_IO and look at the "Put"
procedures. One of them looks kind of like this:

procedure Put (
    To   : out String ;
    Item : in Num ;
    Aft  : in Field := Default_Aft ;
    Exp  : in Field := Default_Exp) ;

See also ARM A.10.9 for more details

Note that you get a pre-instantiated version of this package called
Ada.Float_Text_IO (ARM A.10.9{32..34}) for the standard type Float. That
makes the job just a little easier.

MDC

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Marin David Condic
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