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From: mjr@mimsy.umd.edu (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: wanted - float to ascii - "ftoa()" or the like.
Keywords: preferably small and simple.
Message-ID: <21483@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 27 Dec 89 15:33:42 GMT
References: <21435@mimsy.umd.edu> <1989Dec27.063527.5866@twwells.com>
Reply-To: mjr@mimsy.umd.edu (Marcus J. Ranum)
Organization: Institute for Zen Computing
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In article <1989Dec27.063527.5866@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
>		sprintf(buf, "%g", v);
>Small and simple enough?

	Everyone's a f***ing wit, aren't they ? I got 5 mail messages with
the same suggestion - you can all pat yourselves on the back, now. :-)
For various reasons too long to go into, _doprint() is not the way I want
to do this.

mjr.
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	"A trick of the light and too much caffeine," he thought.    -Bauhaus