Re: Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World

[Ehud Lamm <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>]

> > Mine. For my example printed out "Red apple" as opposed to "RED_APPLE",

A little example of using generics, producing a menu, and pretry printing:

with ada.text_io; use ada.text_io;
with ada.integer_text_io; use ada.integer_text_io;
with Ada.Characters.Handling;

--generic
--   type Menu_Choice is (<>);
procedure Get_Menu_Choice (Choice:out Menu_Choice)  is
   Input:Integer range 0..Menu_Choice'Pos(Menu_Choice'Last);
   Done :Boolean;
   

   function Pretty(S:String) return String is
      -- This code is independent of 'image behaviuor.
      -- just deals with _ and capitalizes first letter in "words"
      Aux    :String(1..S'Length):=(others=>' ');
      Capital:Boolean:=True;
   begin
      for i in S'range loop
         if S(i)='_' then
               Aux(i):=' ';
               Capital:=True;
         elsif Capital then
               Aux(i):=Ada.Characters.Handling.To_Upper(S(i));
               Capital:=False;
         else
               Aux(i):=Ada.Characters.Handling.To_lower(S(i));
         end if;
      end loop;
      return Aux;
   end;

begin  -- Get_Menu
   for Choice in Menu_Choice loop
      put_line(Integer'Image(Menu_Choice'Pos(Choice)) & ' ' & 
               Pretty(Menu_Choice'image(Choice)));
   end loop;
   loop
      begin
         get(Input);
         Done:=True;
      exception
         when others =>
            put_line("minimal error message");
            Skip_Line;
            Done:=False;
      end;
      exit when Done;
    end loop;
    Choice:=Menu_Choice'val(Input);
end;

And a simple driver:

with get_menu_choice;
with ada.text_Io;
use ada.text_io;
procedure try_menu_choice is
   type menu is (First_Option,Second_Option_For_You);
   procedure Get_My_Menu_Choice is new Get_Menu_Choice(Menu_Choice=>Menu);
   
   package EIO is new Enumeration_Io(Menu);
   use EIO;
   C:menu;
begin
   get_My_Menu_Choice(C);
   put(C);
   
end;

Ehud Lamm     mslamm@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
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