Re: Text IO

[john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe)]

On 28 Aug 2001 09:19:31 -0700, mraikes@vt.edu (Matt Raikes) wrote:

>I was wondering how to convert integers and floats to strings for
>output to text files...someone already suggested the following:
>
>For convert Integers to/from Strings check out the
>attributes 'Image (to) and 'Value (from)
>
>I couldn't get this to work though.  Any other ideas??

Depends on what you're trying to do. If you're trying to assign them
to a string it is awkward to use 'Image. Perhaps you should look at
the Reference Manual, particularly the section of Integer_IO (or
Integer_Text_IO) that defines the operations Get and Put, where the
first parameter name is "To". These operations allow you to have full
control over the representation of the output data and store it into a
string, similar to sprintf in C.

The 'Image and 'Value attribute results are, I believe, implementation
dependant.


Best Regards
John McCabe