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From: ted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Converting floats to ascii and vice versa
Message-ID: <2036@usceast.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-May-84 12:28:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  1 12:28:47 1984
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<1 = 0.99999999>
There are several ways to  convert floats to ascii and vice versa.
The query asked specifically (sp?) for functions like atoi and itoa.
Our version 7 system has an atof(3) function available, which is 
like atoi for floats.  If this is not present K&R give an atof 
function on page 69 of the C book .

However, I find that the string formatting commands sprintf and
sscanf give a much nicer and more general way to do this type of 
conversion

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