From: Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Converting numbers to strings
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 21:01:29 -0400
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Paul Richards wrote:
> 
> 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??
         sprintf(filename,"pic%03d.bmp",i);


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