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From: merritt@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (John H Merritt)
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Subject: Re:  real to character converter
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Date: 26 Feb 90 20:15:22 GMT
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In article <9002261609.AA20841@aero4.larc.nasa.gov> blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS294 x42854") writes:
>
>    I don't know of any way to do it in FORTRAN, however, I noticed
>some C routines that might do what you want: ecvt,fcvt,gcvt.  Check
>section 3 of your UNIX manuals.

Use an internal write!

		character *80 cnum
		x = 1.2345
		write(cnum,'(f10.3)') x

and for C use sprintf.


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