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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: Type casting question
Date: 1999/12/21
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Raju Vemulamanda <raju@tridsys.com> wrote in message
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> Question: Could someone please provide some solution
>   to the below?
>
> I have this question in the conversion of values
> between the string and the my own type shown below.
>
> type Bit_5 is range 2#0# .. 2#11111#;
>     for Bit_5'Size use 5;
> subtype Size_Type is Bit_5;
>
> The above is how Size_Type has been declared.
>
> val1 : Jvmfr3_Field_Types.Size_Type := 10;
>
> 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.
Any valid string representation of a scalar value can be converted
to the corresponding value by using the 'Value attribute of the
type.  So.... for your type Bit_5, if you have the declaration:

A_Bit_5_Value : Bit_5;


Then you can say A_Bit_5_Value := Bit_5'Value ("2#10101#");