How do you turn a number into is string representation?  And no, I don't want to use sprintf ;)

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"Russ Lewis" <spamhole-2001-07-16@deming-os.org> wrote in message news:3D94CA10.8F8E957C@deming-os.org...
> How do you turn a number into is string representation?  And no, I don't want to use sprintf ;)

At the moment sprintf or itoa is it, though I intend to write a set of
toString() functions.

Good.  I was trying to use toString, and it didn't seem to be working.  I've implemented by own toString_russ hacks that I'll use until toString gets implemented.

Walter wrote:

> "Russ Lewis" <spamhole-2001-07-16@deming-os.org> wrote in message news:3D94CA10.8F8E957C@deming-os.org...
> > How do you turn a number into is string representation?  And no, I don't want to use sprintf ;)
>
> At the moment sprintf or itoa is it, though I intend to write a set of
> toString() functions.

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Russ Lewis wrote:
> Good.  I was trying to use toString, and it didn't seem to be working.  I've
> implemented by own toString_russ hacks that I'll use until toString gets
> implemented.

Oh, you're using DLI; just use:

   char [] str = fmt ("%s", value);

It works on all values (%s, that is - giving the wrong format code to a type merely falls back on the default).  I thought the question was converting from strings to numbers.

The result is allocated, but you could have:

   char [] statfmt (char [] format, generic [] args...)
   {
       static char [] buffer;
       char [] result;

       result = fmt (format, args...);
       if (result.length > buffer.length)
           buffer.length = result.length;
       buffer [ .. result.length] = result;
       delete result;
       return buffer [ .. result.length];
   }

> Walter wrote:
> 
> 
>>"Russ Lewis" <spamhole-2001-07-16@deming-os.org> wrote in message
>>news:3D94CA10.8F8E957C@deming-os.org...
>>
>>>How do you turn a number into is string representation?  And no, I don't
>>>want to use sprintf ;)
>>
>>At the moment sprintf or itoa is it, though I intend to write a set of
>>toString() functions.