From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: text_io and grid printing Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 18:24:33 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <99bb4ea5-89be-4984-8785-574cb8e4a410@googlegroups.com> <94dfc938-18c9-401a-870e-165d439ab064@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: CvkHMVp693S8Z+lk11jyqg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:52391 Date: 2018-05-17T18:24:33+02:00 List-Id: On 2018-05-17 18:14, Mehdi Saada wrote: > Indeed your package is easy to use, but it can't be better than treating the command line as a grid, so as to output any incoming arbitrary data in its right position in a natural way. This is exactly what it does: -------------------------------- with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO; with Strings_Edit; use Strings_Edit; with Strings_Edit.Integers; use Strings_Edit.Integers; procedure Test is Line : String (1..80); Pointer : Integer; begin Pointer := 9; Put (Destination => Line, Pointer => Pointer, Value => 1, Field => 8, Justify => Right); Pointer := 17; Put (Destination => Line, Pointer => Pointer, Value => 2, Field => 8, Justify => Right); Pointer := 1; Put (Destination => Line, Pointer => Pointer, Value => 3, Field => 8, Justify => Right); Put_Line (Line (1..24)); end Test; ------------------------------------ This prints: 3 1 2 -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de