Re: When using the Ada Big_Numbers.Big_Integers package, can the To_String function output be sliced?

["Jeffrey R.Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org.not>]

On 2023-07-27 07:26, Kenneth Wolcott wrote:
> 
> When using the Ada Big_Numbers.Big_Integers package, can the To_String function output be sliced?
> 
>    I'd like to slice out the first two digits from the output of the To_String function of Ada.Big_Numbers.Big_Integers.
> 
>    When trying to do the usual string slicing on the output I get a silent failure, it is just as if I typed the  null statement.

It would be helpful if you could show what you're doing and what results you 
get. This

with Ada.Numerics.Discrete_Random;
with Ada.Text_IO;

procedure Func_Slice is
    subtype Digit is Character range '0' .. '9';

    package Random is new Ada.Numerics.Discrete_Random (Result_Subtype => Digit);

    Gen : Random.Generator;

    function Image (N : in Natural) return String is
       (if N = 0 then "" else Random.Random (Gen) & Image (N - 1) );
    -- Returns a string of N random Digits
begin -- Func_Slice
    Random.Reset (Gen => Gen);
    Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Item => Image (10) (1 .. 2) );
end Func_Slice;

works as expected

$ gnatmake -m -j0 -gnat12 -gnatan -gnato2 -O2 -fstack-check func_slice.adb
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc-12 -c -gnat12 -gnatan -gnato2 -O2 -fstack-check func_slice.adb
x86_64-linux-gnu-gnatbind-12 -x func_slice.ali
x86_64-linux-gnu-gnatlink-12 func_slice.ali -O2 -fstack-check
$ ./func_slice
10
$ ./func_slice
51

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