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From: session@seq.uncwil.edu (Zack C. Sessions)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: placing output of printf in memory: formatting strings
Keywords: string, format, printf
Message-ID: <1729@seq.uncwil.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 20:04:15 GMT
References: <80463@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: Univ. of North Carolina @ Wilmington
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luntz@acsu.buffalo.edu (jon e luntz) writes:

>	I'm working with a serial device on a machine where I need to use a
>device driver to access the port (ie. I cannot just fopen the port).  The way
>the driver works is it takes the output string straight from memory.  What I'd
>like to do is to be able to write formatted output to memory, such as that from
>a printf or fprintf.  Is there any way to fopen a string pointer or a memory 
>location, or maybe some way to redirect output to memory temporarily?  I'd
>appreciate any advice.

Use sprintf(). For example,

	int number;
	char string[80];
	sprintf(string,"%d",number);


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