From: Paul Richards <Paul AT dunvegan1 DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Converting numbers to strings
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 16:04:41 +0100
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Martin Ambuhl writes,
>This extremely ugly BASIC construction should make you appreciate the much
>derided-by-C++-advocates sprintf function:
Yeah, I've got a lot of BASIC bad habits.  Took me ages to put code into
functions instead of just one big main();
:)

>#include <cstdio>
>char *filename;
>int i;
>      sprintf(filename,"pic%d.bmp",i);
Thanks a huge amount.  What about leading zero's and stuff so that I
get:
pic001.bmp
pic002.bmp
....
pic067.bmp
...
pic245.bmp
...
etc??
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