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From: dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How to separate numbers in three-digit groups in C
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.134512.27162@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 24 Jun 91 13:45:12 GMT
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In article <12192@hub.ucsb.edu> angst@cs.ucsb.edu (Hopelessly in love w/Donna Reed) writes:
>This function will work.  It assumes the number is contained in a string
>(which you can do by using sprintf()) --
>

No it won't. It bombs on -123 for example.