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On Sunday, April 26, 2020 at 2:05:59 AM UTC-4, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> Le 26/04/2020 =C3=A0 00:35, Stephen Davies a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:
> 'Image is not intending for elaborate formatting, it's a quick debugging
> help. Text_IO has all formatting features for proper IO. Since every
> program has different formatting needs, you have to write you own functio=
n.
>=20
This might be a good time to ask since this comes up all the time
for me, but where are the formatting options for hexadecimal=20
to String.  All I have found so far is the Put operation
in the various "_IO" packages and generics, but it isn't=20
useful at all for formatting hexadecimal values in real world
scenarios.  I pretty much reinvent the wheel each time
I have some variant of needing this functionality.  One of
these days I'll get around to making my own generic
version of it, but if the Ada standard provides a means
to do it, that would be optimal.  The only option I have
found is the Put operation, but it is pretty abysmal to
use.  Are there any solutions to this that I am missing
from within the Ada standard?