Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!usc!ucsd!nprdc!malloy
From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: PRINTUSING function for C?
Keywords: print using format c basic
Message-ID: <8649@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 20 Jul 90 17:36:17 GMT
References: <37@fincomp.UUCP>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
Lines: 25

In article <37@fincomp.UUCP> root@fincomp.UUCP (Superuser) writes:
|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.

The latest issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal has an article on writing
routines for handling formatted output like this; I suggest that you
look there first.


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 Sean Malloy                                   | things in the world are a
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