Re: Image attribute (yet again)

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 4/26/20 4:16 PM, Jere wrote:
>>
> 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
> to String.  All I have found so far is the Put operation
> in the various "_IO" packages and generics, but it isn't
> 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?

I can't tell what problem you're talking about. Ada.Text_IO's numeric-I/O pkgs, 
sometimes combined with String-handling functions and basic 1-D array operations 
seem to provide everything one could want.

Pkg PragmARC.Images has been around for a long time and provides generic Image 
functions for numeric types with width, zero-fill, and base options.

https://github.com/jrcarter/PragmARC

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Jeff Carter
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