Re: Formatting output

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Well, to suggest a possible solution to the problem of getting a floating
point number represented as currency in either a string or in output to a
text file, you'll have to be a bit more specific as to what constraints you
want to put on it.

Ada.Text_IO.Float_IO is one means of doing it, but if you're going to rule
that out, there aren't a lot of alternatives. You could potentially convert
the value to a decimal fixed and use either the appendix I cited elsewhere
or you're right back to Ada.Text_IO... subpackages. Or you can totally
Roll-Your-Own by doing math ops on the number to get individual digits and
convert the digits to characters & build your own string out of it.

MDC
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"Ben" <cptnben@gisco.net> wrote in message
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> I should also correct my post by saying that FLOAT_IO is not used at
> all in my current code.