Re: ATOI

["Robert I. Eachus" <rieachus@attbi.com>]

Riccardo Fulcoli wrote:
> HI!
> I'm having problems reguarding the input/output from files in text mode.
> Exactly I would like to read a field as a string of 50 characters(and for
> that i'm using the redirection of the input) and after that to convert it in
> a number (an integer).
> i.e. I'm looking for a function like the C "atoi".
> Of course I already know that the content of the field is a numeric one but
> the unchecked conversions seems not to be good at the purpose.
> Is there someone that could help me???
> Thanks ;)
> 
> Riccardo

Why would you want to do an Unchecked_Conversion.  See Ada.Text_IO, or 
Ada.Integer_Text_IO.  But if you have already read in a string you can 
use the attribute function Integer'Value(Some_String).  Note that the 
function will ignore leading and trailing spaces, but otherwise can 
raise an exception which may not be what you want.  See RM 3.5(52)


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