Re: Binary value

["David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>]

Don't you mean
T'Value ("2#" & The_Input_String & "#") instead of
T'Image ?
.

"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote in message
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> "Phaedrus" <phaedrusalt@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > I've often thought that the "default base" in text_io should allow you
to set
> > the default INPUT base, too, so that users of it could just specify that
they
> > wanted the user to be able to plug in a number in a certain base without
> > using the base and pound signs.  Unfortunately, it doesn't work that
way.
>
> You can read the thing as a string, and then say something like
> T'Image("2#" & The_Input_String & "#").
>
> - Bob