Re: Converting Type Characters to type string

[jedivaughn <jedivaughn14@gmail.com>]

On Apr 1, 1:34 am, Simon Wright <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote:
> jedivaughn <jedivaugh...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Ok So I've almost solved my problem. my only question now is I need
> > to convert one character to an integer. I know the input is a
> > integer so it's not going to give me a constraint error but how will
> > I convert one character to an integer?
>
> Make a one-character String holding your Character & convert that?
>
> with ada.text_io;
> procedure blah is
>   i : integer := integer'value (string'(1 .. 1 => '7'));
> begin
>   ada.text_io.put_line ("i => " & integer'image (i));
> end blah;


not exactly what I was looking for. I have a number stored in a
character. and I want to turn that into a integer. so I can add it to
another integer. 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?