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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Ord Function HELP Please HELP HELP HELP
Date: 1998/12/14
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John_Lin@paramount.com (Johnny) writes:

> On Mon, 14 Dec 1998 03:21:52 GMT, tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) wrote:
> 
> >Do you mean integer'image(5) 
> >which gives " 5"? or do you mean "fifth"?
> 
> 
> Hi, Thank You for your msg,  
> I'm a new ada coder, and I have run into a small problem, I can't find
> a function that will return the ASCII converted number for any key
> pressed on the keyboard,   example:  user hits the backspace key, I
> would like to be able to catch the key however, without a function to
> convert the ASCII representation to #8, we would have no idea that he
> pressed the backspace.  In VB it's the "CHR" function in Pascal it's
> the "Ord" function, ADA95 does not list this function anywhere that I
> can find, I am hoping it is built into the compiler, however, I think
> I may need to dload a Package.
> 
> Any Help is much appreciated,
> 
> Thnx ,Johnny


Use Get_Immediate to deliver the character corresponding to the key,
then convert that character to its integer code by using Character'Pos.