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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: for S'Image use Func??
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Jeffrey R. Carter expounded in news:hrvg3i$2b3$1@tornado.tornevall.net:

> Warren wrote:
>> 
>> True, but in my case I just needed the leading zeros, sans
>> any sign:
>> 
>> 900 to be displayed as "00900" (vs " 900").
> 
> In my job we make extensive use of the image functions from
> PragmARC.Images. These have optional Width, Base, and Zero_Filled
> parameters. So we'd use 

Thanks for the pointer. But for my own Open Sourced
project, which other folks will have to compile, I
would need a very compelling reason to bring in
any third party packages. 

This is why I am wildly enthusiastic about 
Ada.Containers. In the past I had to depend upon
the Booch components. But then there were issues for
the end user depending upon the version they chose
to download and install, etc.

Having Ada.Containers included, presumably means
they are well supported with the compiler they 
have installed. So far, that has been my experience.
I depend quite heavily on them for this project.

So for something trivial like adding leading zeros,
I won't add a "project dependency".  If I further
have to include patches and install instructions for
same said third party packages, then that pretty
much kills any interest in doing so. ;-)

I vaguely remember looking at them however, back in
my Ada-95 days.

Warren