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From: Leslie <jlturriff@centurytel.net>
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Subject: Re: How to convert a string containing two hex digits to a character?
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:19:35 -0600
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tmoran@acm.org wrote:

>   Hex_Pair : String(1 .. 2) := "7C";
> 
>   Char : Character
>     := Character'val(Integer'value("16#" & Hex_Pair & "#"));
> 
> Of course if this is homework in an Intro to Ada class, the
> teacher may not believe you came up with this by yourself.

        No, this is not for school. :-)  After 30 years of COBOL and
REXX, I'm trying to teach myself Ada, which I'm finding a lot
more understandable than C, especially for text manipulation.

        Thanks very much for this elegant solution; text handling seems
to be a somewhat neglected subject in the Ada books and web
sites I've been reading.

Leslie