Re: Ord Function HELP Please HELP HELP HELP

[dennison@telepath.com]

In article <3679891d.19665290@news.smartlink.net>,
  John_Lin@paramount.com (Johnny) wrote:

> I'm a new ada coder, and I have run into a small problem, I can't find
> a function that will return the ASCII converted number for any key
> pressed on the keyboard,   example:  user hits the backspace key, I
> would like to be able to catch the key however, without a function to
> convert the ASCII representation to #8, we would have no idea that he
> pressed the backspace.  In VB it's the "CHR" function in Pascal it's
> the "Ord" function, ADA95 does not list this function anywhere that I
> can find, I am hoping it is built into the compiler, however, I think

  Character'pos('8') will return the integer value 56.

  Integer'image("8") will return the integer value 8. Integer'image("88") will
return the integer value 88, Integer'image("888") will..., well, you get the
idea.

I suspect the second is what you are asking for. It would be a good idea to
look through annex K of the Ada LRM ( http://www.adahome.com/rm95/rm9x-K.html
). There are all sorts of goodies in there for you!

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T.E.D.

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