Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!twwells!bill
From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: wanted - float to ascii - "ftoa()" or the like.
Keywords: preferably small and simple.
Message-ID: <1989Dec27.063527.5866@twwells.com>
Date: 27 Dec 89 06:35:27 GMT
References: <21435@mimsy.umd.edu>
Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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In article <21435@mimsy.umd.edu> mjr@mimsy.umd.edu (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
:       I'm looking for a small and simple "ftoa()" routine - doesn't
: need lots of formatting options - just has to take a float and return
: a pointer to a string. I'd rather not hack it out of the various
: _doprint() implementations that are floating around, if someone has
: already done it.

	void
	ftoa(buf, v)
	char    *buf;
	double  v;
	{
		sprintf(buf, "%g", v);
	}

Small and simple enough?

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