Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tiamat!mjbtn!fincomp!root
From: root@fincomp.UUCP (Superuser)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: PRINTUSING function for C?
Keywords: print using format c basic
Message-ID: <37@fincomp.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 90 14:20:28 GMT
Organization: Financial Computers Corp., Murfreesboro, TN
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Has anyone ever implemented BASIC's PRINTUSING feature in C?

I have a situation where some basic software types forms with a statement
like:

  call typereal(hp, vp, "$###,###,##.##", realvar);

where hp and vp are x,y coordinates where the output is to be printed,
realvar is a double precision real variable, and that mess in the 
middle is a format specifier used by BASIC's PRINTUSING statement.
This statement would cause the value of realvar to be printed in a
dollar and cents format with commas and a floating dollar sign.
If I had a way to handle the printusing statement in C then I could
re-use a bunch of existing BASIC code with just a touch of editing.

Post or email - all help appreciated!
My apologies for speaking the word BASIC in this group!  

Aren't you glad you use C?  Don't you wish everybody did?


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