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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:50:33 +0100
From: Mark Murray <w.h.oami@example.com>
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Date: 2012-07-30T09:50:33+01:00
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Hi Folks

Is there anyting in the Ada Standard Library (or the language itself)
that acts /in loco/ Fortran's formatted I/O or C's printf()/scanf()?

I know these can be written as required, and I know that there are ways
to call C's printf()/scanf() functions from Ada, but I'm interested to
see if there is not already something "in the box". Yes, I'm aware of
the formatting capabilities of put()/get(), but that's not quite what
I'm wondering about.

I could have sworn I saw a PL/1-style "picture" version of this, but I'm
coming round to believing that this was "customer code", not standard
library.

M

PS: Is it really the case that put(some_integer,16) will _always_
print the '16#9999#' format, and that there is on way _in_the_
_standard_library_ of *not* getting the '16#.....#' wrapper?
Yes, I know there are ways you can get rid of it (eg with a slice), or 
by "rolling your own" - alternatives aren't my question here :-).

M
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Mark "No Nickname" Murray
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