From: ksinner AT solaria DOT sol DOT net (Kenton E. Sinner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Double to string anybody?
Date: 3 Nov 1996 00:39:04 GMT
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Peter JB King (pjbk AT cee DOT hw DOT ac DOT uk) wrote:
: In article <5568bo$kdl AT hummin DOT sol DOT net> ksinner AT solaria DOT sol DOT net (Kenton E. Sinner) writes:
: >Olav Kindt (oak9755 AT silver DOT sdsmt DOT edu) wrote:
: >: Hi there,
: >
: >: I was wondering if djgpp had the equivalent of the gcvt() function from
: >: BCC (Yeah i know..). Has anybody implemented these, or do I have to do it
: >
: >I had to write my own function for just this purpose.  But it's not hard.

[snip]

: >
: The suggested solution doesn't seem to take care of the fractional part.
: Why not use sprintf?  It is more likely to be tested for all the funny
: boundary value cases than any ad-hoc function that one hacks together!

I'm sorry, I misunderstood the question.  I was thinking about "long
long" int, not "double".  Sorry to add to the confusion.  :(

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