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From: Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com>
Subject: When using the Ada Big_Numbers.Big_Integers package, can the To_String function output be sliced?
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 22:26:24 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b5e3d389-0bb0-41ac-8a47-6110a5b62d67n@googlegroups.com> (raw)

Hi;

When using the Ada Big_Numbers.Big_Integers package, can the To_String function output be sliced?

  I'd like to slice out the first two digits from the output of the To_String function of Ada.Big_Numbers.Big_Integers.

  When trying to do the usual string slicing on the output I get a silent failure, it is just as if I typed the  null statement.

  Do I have to save the output to a variable via a declare block in order to get the slice to work?

  This question is prompted by my attempt to solve the Rosetta Code task:

https://rosettacode.org/wiki/First_power_of_2_that_has_leading_decimal_digits_of_12

Thanks,
Ken Wolcott

             reply	other threads:[~2023-07-27  5:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-27  5:26 Kenneth Wolcott [this message]
2023-07-27  8:53 ` When using the Ada Big_Numbers.Big_Integers package, can the To_String function output be sliced? Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-07-27 22:47   ` Kenneth Wolcott
2023-07-28 17:19     ` AdaMagica
2023-07-28 18:21     ` Simon Wright
2023-07-29  3:29       ` Kenneth Wolcott
2023-07-29 11:07       ` AdaMagica
2023-07-29 23:49         ` Kenneth Wolcott
2023-07-29 23:53           ` Kenneth Wolcott
2023-07-30  4:43             ` Randy Brukardt
2023-07-31 19:36               ` Kenneth Wolcott

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