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Question by ig307
Submitted on 2/17/2004
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While 'withing' and 'using' both Text_IO and
Float_Text_IO, what package can I instantiate
(if any) to display floating point numbers without the exponent, i.e. 1.2500e02 to 125.00. I am familiar with the form:
(floatvar,1,2,0);, but this doesn't work when I use it in:
Put(Output_File, Item => floatvar);.
This is within a 'for' loop that is within a 'begin'
and 'end' for exception handling, (If any of that makes sense),
to the new text file I am generating.
I can overcome this problem by switching all variables to a natural type, but this isn't what I want.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.



  



Answer by PragmAda Software Engineering
Submitted on 4/28/2004
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Ada.Float_Text_IO is [equivalent to] an instantiation of Ada.Text_IO.Float_IO. The discussion of the latter can be found at ARM A.10.9. The ARM may be found at

http://www.adaic.org/standards/95lrm/html/RM-TTL.html

You will find the following operation:

procedure Put(File : in File_Type;
              Item : in Num;
              Fore : in Field := Default_Fore;
              Aft  : in Field := Default_Aft;
              Exp  : in Field := Default_Exp);

By specifying zero for the value of Exp in this call [Put (..., Exp => 0);] you can avoid outputting an exponent part.

 

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