From: sparhawk AT eunet DOT at (Gerhard Gruber)
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Subject: Re: float convertion
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 23:17:00 GMT
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From: Gruber Gerhard
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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 10:11:54 -0700:

>Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Jonathan Villani wrote:
>>
>> > Hi! I am currently programming 3d stuff and I would like to know how
>> to
>> > convert a float to a string. I know that in Borland C there was a
>> function
>> > called fcvt. In DJGPP, I don't know if it is possible???
>>
>> fcvt is non-standard, and DJGPP doesn't have it.  Use sprintf instead.
>
>Or you can use fprintf to "save" the value to disk, then read it back in
>as a string:
>
>    fprintf(handle,"%f",pi);
>
>Then read it with:
>
>    fgets(string,80,handle);
>
>It's kloogy, but it works.

That's AWFULL. :)
you can do it faster this way.

char s[100];
sprintf(s, "%f", value);

That's it.
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   Gerhard

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