Re: Float to String

[Peter Hermann <ica2ph@sinus.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Nick Roberts <nick.roberts@acm.org> wrote:
> If it is not necessary for the string to be human interpretable, you could
> take the approach: use streaming to convert the floating point value into
> a Storage_Element_Array; write out the array as a sequence of hexadecimal
> values into the string. Obviously you do the reverse to convert back to
> floating point values.

this is not portable concerning different floating representations.
(and I guess this was the original requirement)

Jean-Pierre Rosen's recommendation:
>This should be possible if you write it in base 2. Note that Get will
>accept a binary floating point number, but you have to write you own
>Put.

suggests for improvement for Ada2005:
add a formal parameter "base" for real types to subroutine put.

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