From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Type casting question
Date: 1999/12/21
Date: 1999-12-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83n9qq$8bq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 385E87D8.2B44B800@tridsys.com
In article <385E87D8.2B44B800@tridsys.com>,
comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:
> Suppose I have a string xxx which has the some value in it,
> How can I convert that xxx into the above declared val1?
> I have to copy xxx into val1. I need to somehow do the
> type casting for the above.
Don't use the term type casting, it is never appropriate in
Ada, and in fact what you want has nothing to do with type
casting in say the C sense.
What you want is conversion routines, provided in Ada using
the 'Value and 'Image attributes, look them up in any Ada book!
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-20 0:00 Type casting question Raju Vemulamanda
1999-12-20 0:00 ` DuckE
1999-12-21 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21 0:00 ` reason67
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21 0:00 ` reason67
1999-12-22 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` reason67
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` reason67
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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