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From: Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net>
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Subject: Re: Does ada have a sscanf equivalent?
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On Feb 22, 12:48=A0pm, jpwoodruff <jpwoodr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 22, 1:08=A0am, "J.s" <justin.squi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to translate some C code that parses a string into numbers
> > (both Integers and Floats) from an input file. Would it be easiest to
> > just import the C function or is there an Ada equivalent?
>
> Let me offer a product of my own devising.
>
> "The packages Numeric_IO and Name_IO, together with their children and
> support, assist a program to read a user=92s input. =A0The packages are
> intended to support numerical computation by providing Get and Put
> procedures for floating numbers and for vectors and matrices of
> floating numbers.
>
> "The procedures ease an end-user=92s burden in preparing inputs for
> computational programs. =A0The rules for input of floating numbers are
> relaxed so that program inputs need not conform to the strict Ada
> syntax for floating numbers. Facilities allow input either from files
> or interactively. Consistent policies throughout all the services
> allow programs to address input errors, to prompt the end-user
> interactively or to specify optional default values."
>
> Dmitry has been kind enough to make it available.
>
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/Numeric-Name-IO
>
> --
> John

This looks pretty cool. But it doesn't seem to use the Ada 2005
definitions for matrices and vectors. I haven't looked at the code but
I wonder how hard it would be to create such a version. I would think
it should be pretty easy.

Jerry