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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: Converting Type Characters to type string
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On Apr 2, 10:54 pm, tmo...@acm.org wrote:
> >So say I have the number '5' stored in a character
> >and I want that in an integer not a character or string. how would I
> >do that?

We don't have untyped Ada, yet.  So array elements have to have types:

> Value : constant array(Character range '0' .. '9')

                      of integer

> := (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9);
>  ...
> X := Value(C);

                           -- Adam