From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: strings to floats/integers
Date: 1998/08/26
Date: 1998-08-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6s1g0t$lk6@hacgate2.hac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6s1e9k$bgq@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com
Richard D Riehle wrote in message <6s1e9k$bgq@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com>...
>In article <35e41033.9324314@200.223.0.87>,
<snip>
>The conversion between strings and float and strings and integers can
>easily be accomplished using Ada.Text_IO. Note that for
>
> Ada.Text_IO.Integer_IO
> and Ada.Text_IO.Float_IO
>
>there are Get and Put operations defined for conversion between strings
>and the desired numeric type. Not only is this easy, it is also more
>portable than some alternatives. For some odd reason, this feature of
>Ada.Text_IO is frequently undiscovered, even by programmers who have
>been using Ada for many years.
>
True enough, Richard, but I would only use an instance of a numeric io
generic for the case where I wanted to control the output format. If I will
accept exponential notation for floating output, I would use the 'image
attribute. For all conversion from strings, I would use the 'value
attribute.
Am I missing something here?
David C. Hoos, Sr.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-08-26 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-08-26 0:00 strings to floats/integers Mr Pinga
1998-08-26 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1998-08-26 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr. [this message]
1998-08-26 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1998-08-29 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-09-03 0:00 ` Bob Fletcher
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