From: baldwin@netcom.com (J.D. Baldwin)
Subject: Leading zeros with Int_IO.Put()? Or another package?
Date: 1996/11/05
Date: 1996-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <baldwinE0Eq2n.KLB@netcom.com> (raw)
A "how-to" question from an Ada dabbler:
I just got a copy of GNAT and 'make'-ed the examples. The first one
I ran, cal.exe, gave me the following date and time:
11/5/1996 10:4:3
. . . when what one *wants* of course is:
11/05/1996 11:04:03
(Leading zero optional--but, by me, preferred--for the date; omitting
it is of course inexcusable for the minutes and seconds fields in the
time.)
In C, building a formatted string takes care of such silliness.
(Spare me a list of C's other, more-than-offsetting, shortcomings,
please.) I seem to recall from the mists of the distant past that
Pascal provided a means of accomplishing this, too.
I searched the c.l.a archives at DejaNews, I web-searched for Int_IO,
I scanned the FAQ and I read the appropriate sections of RM95 (A.10.8
and adjacent). I found nothing about leading zeros except as pertains
to exponent portions of floating point numbers. (Actually, I found
one snippet of example code that implemented the same kludge I did.)
So I added relevant lines of code to CAL.ADB:
if (MINUTE <= 9) then
Int_IO.Put(0, 0);
end if;
Int_IO.Put(MINUTE,0);
. . . and so forth, for each relevant value.
My question: is there a better way to pad out integers with leading
zeros? What if I wanted to pad to a width of three or four or sixteen,
all with zeros? Is there a standard way to achieve this in Ada?
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1996-11-05 0:00 J.D. Baldwin [this message]
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Leading zeros with Int_IO.Put()? Or another package? David Shochat
1996-11-08 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-10 0:00 ` Verne Arase
1996-11-13 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-19 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-20 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Larry J. Elmore
1996-11-25 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-26 0:00 ` Larry J. Elmore
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-25 0:00 ` shmuel
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-22 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-11-23 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Jerry Coffin
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Verne Arase
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
[not found] ` <56tjrh$4a <MPLANET.3294c204jcoffin989a3e@news.rmi.net>
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Bert
1996-11-13 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-13 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-19 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-22 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-11-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-21 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-11-22 0:00 ` robin
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-08 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-11-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-25 0:00 ` J. David Bryan
1996-11-27 0:00 ` Verne Arase
1996-11-28 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-12-15 0:00 Robert Dewar
1996-11-05 0:00 Collection of 2500+ links about Object-Orientation - interested ? Manfred Schneider
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Leading zeros with Int_IO.Put()? Or another package? John Herro
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-07 0:00 ` James Rogers
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