Re: Ascii keyword??

[Lao Xiao Hai <laoxhai@ix.netcom.com>]

Richard wrote:

> ok am new to this ada thing, so  is there a package and/or keyword i can
> use to convert a decimal number to a acsii character and vice versa
>
> thanks :)

The problem of converting a numeric value to a string and vice versa is
quite
nicely addressed in package Ada.Text_IO.    For example, if you have a
floating
point type, you can instantiate Ada.Text_IO.Float_IO.    There are GET and
PUT
operations available from that instantiation to convert a string to a
floating point
value or get a floating point value from a string.

This same feature is available for all the numeric types:  integers,
decimal, fixed-point,
and modular.

Richard Riehle