Re: integers into strings

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com>]

isaac2004 wrote:

> no im not converting the inputted number into a string im sorting the
> digits of the value into ascending and descending order and then making
> two different numbers out of it one ascending one descending

I suppose you could pull off the digits using "rem" and "/", sort those, and put 
them back together using "*" and "+", but it seems easier to deal with the 
numbers as Strings and the digits as Characters.

In any case, you're going to input the number as Characters. You may hide this 
by using something like Ada.Text_IO.Integer_IO, but the actual input is a 
sequence of characters, which is then interpreted as the image of a value of an 
integer type and converted to the corresponding value. That's why it's called 
"Text I/O". If you do decide to do the sorting with Characters, you can make 
things a little easier by simply inputting the number as a String.

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