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From: "David Peterson" <dp@nospam.com>
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Subject: altering number of significant figures
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:59:01 +1000
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Hi, sorry for this stupid question, but i can not seem to find out how to do 
it. Suppose i define:


   myfloat : float := 1234.5678;
   screen_display("value = " & float'image(myfloat));


... where screen_display() prints out the content passed to it, to standard 
output.

However I do not know how to only print only the first 2 (for example) 
decimal places of myfloat.

The above will print "value = 1234.5678". However I want "value = 1234.56".

I know there is a simple solution to this, but i cant find it. Using Barnes 
to learn from.

Any help most welcome :)
Thanks,
David