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In <4ftn81$5sv@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) writes:

>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. 

Only a fool could think something like this.  atoi (which is a
standard C function, no double quotes required) converts a string to an
int, as its name says: Ascii-TO-Int.  Got it?

>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.

This is precisely why clever programmers choose the ANSI C solution
whenever possible (sprintf in this case).

BTW, neither lltostr nor ltoa are part of any Unix standard that I know of.
If you use vendor-specific extensions, you get what you deserve.

Dan
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