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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: No FAQ? A stupid question, then?
Date: 1998/11/27
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Date: 1998-11-27T00:00:00+00:00
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"Ricardo Palomares Mart�nez"  <ricardo@eucmax.sim.ucm.es> writes:

>     My problem is simple: I need to get the string expression of integer
> and real numbers (the usual Str(number) of other languages), but I'm
> unable (that wouldn't be surprising if you did know me :-) ) to get the
> equivalent function looking around the Ada reference (the HTML files
> which came with GNAT 3.07 for MS-DOS).

The attribute T'Image returns the string form of a number, ie

   S : String := Integer'Image (42);

You can go the other way, and get the value that corresponds to a
string:

   I : Integer := Integer'Value ("42");