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From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: Float to String
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:29:22 +0100
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Pascal Obry a =E9crit :

> I was wondering if there is a way to save a float into a string and rea=
d it
> back without loosing precision ?
>=20
> I tried something like:
>=20
>    F_Str : String (1 .. Float'Base'Digits);
>=20
>    Float_Text_IO.Put (F_Str, My_Float, Aft =3D> Float'Base'Digits);
>=20
Of course, the catch is in "without loosing precision".

This should be possible if you write it in base 2. Note that Get will=20
accept a binary floating point number, but you have to write you own Put.=


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