Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucselx!hoysch From: hoysch@ucselx.sdsu.edu ( Hoysch) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: integer'image Summary: Not very difficult to remove the leading blank. Message-ID: <1991Jan20.025451.29808@ucselx.sdsu.edu> Date: 20 Jan 91 02:54:51 GMT References: <2563@sparko.gwu.edu> <10140@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> Organization: San Diego State University Computing Services Lines: 8 I think a big thing is being made out of something that is not very hard to do. For example INTEGER'IMAGE(I)(2..INTEGER'IMAGE(I)'LAST) will do it or a very simple routine if this is too hard on the eyes. That space, as has been pointed out, is often nice to have to offset the '-' of negative numbers. Dan "Hoysch" Heuschele