Re: Hexadecimal and stream element arrays

[Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>]

Ludovic Brenta expounded in
news:2f4313a5-bb3d-4f7f-8a86-7c8f7d549c53@k41g2000yqf.googlegroups.com: 

..
> You could use the predefined library to get a result using the Ada
> "syntax for based literal" (ARM A.10.8(14)), e.g. 16#CE#.
> 
>    package Stream_Element_IO is
>      new Ada.Text_IO.Modular_IO (Num => Ada.Streams.Stream_Element);
> 
>    E : Ada.Streams.Stream_Element := ...
> begin
>    Stream_Element_IO.Put (Item => E, Base => 16);
> 
> (There are variants of Put that send the output to a File_Type or to a
> string)..
> Ludovic Brenta.

I've been interested in finding these ways to "Put" (Hex) to 
a string, instead of a File_Type. 

But what I've seen is that "Put" always involves a 
File_Type (or implies one).

So what have I missed?  

Warren