Re: Converting string to float and integer

["Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org>]

In article <3vSd4.35559$E36.436449@news2-hme0> , "Daniel Platt" 
<dan-news@ofdan.co.uk> wrote:

> I am tring to convert a string into a float and/or integer.

Every scalar type comes with predefined attributes to convert from
string to that type, and from that type to a string.

Convert_String_To_Int:
declare
  Image : constant String := "42";
  Value : constant Integer := Integer'Value (Image);
begin
  null;
end Convert_String_To_Int;

Convert_Int_To_String:
declare
  Value : constant Integer := 42;
  Image : constant String := Integer'Image (Value);
begin
  null;
end Convert_Int_To_String;


To convert between Float and String, use Float'Image and Float'Value.

To convert between any scalar type T and String, use T'Image and
T'Value.


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