From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,91965a012526b259 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Float to String References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:03:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.105.240 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1099940596 63.184.105.240 (Mon, 08 Nov 2004 11:03:16 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 11:03:16 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6051 Date: 2004-11-08T19:03:16+00:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry wrote: > I was wondering if there is a way to save a float into a string and > read it back without loosing precision ? > > I tried something like: > > F_Str : String (1 .. Float'Base'Digits); > > Float_Text_IO.Put (F_Str, My_Float, Aft => Float'Base'Digits); > > But this is not enough... Ideas ? GNAT's Float_IO uses "String (1 .. 3 * Field'Last + 2)". You could combine that with "Aft => Field'Last, Exp => Field'Last" and see if that helps. -- Jeff Carter "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." Blazing Saddles 89