From: Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: When using the Ada Big_Numbers.Big_Integers package, can the To_String function output be sliced?
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:47:01 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <be16b58d-d612-4d48-aae1-062818184a66n@googlegroups.com> (raw)
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On Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 1:53:38 AM UTC-7, Jeffrey R.Carter wrote:
> On 2023-07-27 07:26, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> It would be helpful if you could show what you're doing and what results you
> get. This
>
> with Ada.Numerics.Discrete_Random;
> with Ada.Text_IO;
>
> procedure Func_Slice is
> subtype Digit is Character range '0' .. '9';
>
> package Random is new Ada.Numerics.Discrete_Random (Result_Subtype => Digit);
>
> Gen : Random.Generator;
>
> function Image (N : in Natural) return String is
> (if N = 0 then "" else Random.Random (Gen) & Image (N - 1) );
> -- Returns a string of N random Digits
> begin -- Func_Slice
> Random.Reset (Gen => Gen);
> Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Item => Image (10) (1 .. 2) );
> end Func_Slice;
>
> works as expected
>
> $ gnatmake -m -j0 -gnat12 -gnatan -gnato2 -O2 -fstack-check func_slice.adb
> x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-12 -c -gnat12 -gnatan -gnato2 -O2 -fstack-check func_slice.adb
> x86_64-linux-gnu-gnatbind-12 -x func_slice.ali
> x86_64-linux-gnu-gnatlink-12 func_slice.ali -O2 -fstack-check
> $ ./func_slice
> 10
> $ ./func_slice
> 51
Hi Jeff;
After going back and exhaustively reviewing the AdaCore Learning Introduction sections on Strings and Arrays, I determined that I was not slicing with the correct syntax for what I wanted to obtain, it seems that I was slicing built-in whitespace, not the digits I was looking for. So I am now extracting the two-digit slice using (2 .. 3) rather than (1 .. 2) and I am now obtaining the desired output. What I was trying to do was to obtain the slice from the string on the fly, not first saving the string to a variable.
This is what I have now (which works great):
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
with Ada.Integer_Text_IO; use Ada.Integer_Text_IO;
with Ada.Command_Line; use Ada.Command_Line;
with Ada.Numerics.Big_Numbers.Big_Integers; use Ada.Numerics.Big_Numbers.Big_Integers;
procedure Powers_Of_2_With_Leading_Digits_Of_12 is
Max : Positive := Integer'Value (Argument (1));
Powers_of_2 : Big_Positive := 1;
begin
for I in 1 .. Max loop
Powers_of_2 := Powers_of_2 * To_Big_Integer (2);
if I >= 4 then
declare
Powers_of_2_in_String_Format : String := To_String (Powers_of_2);
First_Pair_of_String_Digits : String := Powers_of_2_in_String_Format (2 .. 3);
begin
if First_Pair_of_String_Digits = "12" then
Put ("2^");
Put (I, 0);
Put_Line (To_String (Powers_of_2));
end if;
end; -- declare
end if;
end loop;
end Powers_Of_2_With_Leading_Digits_Of_12;
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Now I can generalize this to more closely match the task requirements.
I think I tried to incorrectly create the slice from the To_String output directly without creating the variable in which to store the slice, which then requires the declare block.
Thanks,
Ken
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2023-07-27 5:26 When using the Ada Big_Numbers.Big_Integers package, can the To_String function output be sliced? Kenneth Wolcott
2023-07-27 8:53 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-07-27 22:47 ` Kenneth Wolcott [this message]
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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