Ada Programming/Attributes/'Extended Image

Description

Returns the image of type STRING associated with a specified item as defined for the PUT procedure in TEXT_IO generic package appropriate for type T (e.g., TEXT_IO.INTEGER_IO(T) if T is an integer type). T may denote an integer, enumeration, floating point or fixed point type name. Named parameter notation may not be used. The parameters are:

Item : T

the item for which you want the image. Required.

Width : Field := 0

the minimum number of characters to be in the string that is returned.

Base : Number_Base := 10

the base in which the image is to be displayed.

Based : Boolean := FALSE

if TRUE, return the string in based format (e.g., 10#99#).

Space_If_Positive : Boolean := FALSE

if TRUE, a positive integer will be preceded by a blank in the string returned.

Example

T'EXTENDED_IMAGE(Item, Width, Base, Based, Space_If_Positive)