Re: Simple library functions

[Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>]

Harald Korneliussen wrote:

> One problem I keep running into is the lack of common, useful
> utilities in the libraries that come with Gnat & Ada. One thing is
> that I had to write my own tokenizer. That gave me the opporunity to
> emulate the String.split() method in newer versions of Java, OK*. But
> now I have to do an even simpler task, converting a string of digits
> to an integer, and as far as I can see there is no function for this
> in the standard libraries!?

There's no function for that in the standard library because it's part 
of the language. Others have pointed out the 'Value attribute.

I have no idea what String.split does in Java, but I suspect it's 
similar to Ada.Strings.(Fixed | Bounded | Unbounded).Find_Token. If not, 
you could look at www.adapower.com or www.adahome.com for Open_Token.

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Jeff Carter
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