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christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) wrote:

>In article <stephenkDMqrH6.Bo5@netcom.com>, stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) writes:

>|> >What is the non-trivial method to convert an integer into an ASCII
>|> >representation of its value?  All I need is code that will run on
>|> >Solaris (2.3) and HPUX 9. 

>|> You ask for it, you got it!

>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
>"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.

>Chris
>-- 
>Speaking only for myself, of course.
>Chris Wood    christw@lexis-nexis.com   ChrisCWood@eworld.com

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