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In article <4g1om1$s22@apans1.apa.at>, toelle@apanet.apa.co.at (Christian Toelle) writes:
|> christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) wrote:
|> 
|> >In article <stephenkDMqrH6.Bo5@netcom.com>, stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) writes:

|> >This code prints a string to stdout.  I wanted to convert the integer
|> >to a string to pass on to a different function.  One would think the
|> >"standard" atoi() would work.  It's even mentioned in Stroustrup's
Correction:    ^^^^ itoa()

|> >"The C++ Programming Language" 2nd Edition, page 158.  

|> >But if you're running two very popular (possibly the two most popular)
|> >unix implementations, you have to do this differently; lltostr() on
|> >Solaris 2.3 (by the way, the man page for this function, as
|> >distributed by Sun, is wrong.), and ltoa() on HP.

|> >Unix has so many standards, you almost always pick the wrong one.

|> Sorry, but atoi () converts a string to an int.

Noted.  But my point still stands...

Chris
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