From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: help Please
Date: 1999/01/26
Date: 1999-01-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78kihc$m55@hobbes.crc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36ADB3F7.7A239560@gecm.com
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Steve Kerr wrote in message <36ADB3F7.7A239560@gecm.com>...
>Matthew Heaney wrote:
>
>[....snip snip.....]
<snip>
> More simply, you can use the value attribute. For example
>
> integer'value("4")
>
>will give you the integer value 4, not the code for ASCII "4".
>
>This attribute can be used with any string representing a discrete type, so
>I guess boolean'value("TRUE") works too (although I have only ever tried it
>with numeric values). Leading and trailing spaces in the string are
ignored,
>so there's no need to trim it. As a matter of interest, this 'value is the
>opposite of 'image.
>
Not quite true -- it's for every _scalar_ type which includes reals, as well
as discretes:
Hear what RM95 says:
S�Value For every scalar subtype S:
S�Value denotes a function with the following specification:
function S'Value(Arg : String)
return S'Base
This function returns a value given an image of the value as a String,
ignoring any leading or trailing spaces. See 3.5.
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1999-01-24 0:00 ` help Please Matthew Heaney
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-01-26 0:00 ` Steve Kerr
1999-01-26 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr. [this message]
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Steve Kerr
1999-01-27 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
2000-05-22 0:00 help please saju sathyan
2000-05-22 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-05-23 0:00 ` saju sathyan
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2001-12-16 15:27 Pierrick
2001-12-16 18:27 ` Patrick Hohmeyer
2001-12-16 19:46 ` Steve Doiel
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