From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Long -> String
Date:	Fri, 15 Nov 1996 21:11:04 -0800
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Henrik Bäärnhielm wrote:
> 
> Is there a library function that convert a long to a string? In for
> example Turbo C++ 3.0 which I have coded in pretty much, there are ultoa
> that converts unsigned long to string and gcvt that converts float to
> string. I have looked in the library reference but I can't find
> something that does that.

char str[100];
long l = 100;

sprintf( str, "%ld", l );

You could easily write an "ltoa()" function that does this and put it in
your programs.  There is no such function in DJGPP because it is
non-ANSI.

P.S.:  Since ints in DJGPP are 4-byte anyway, itoa() is easily capable
of handling a long.

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