Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!tramp!hartkopf From: hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Jeff Hartkopf) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: converting a float to a character string Message-ID: <10720@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 13 Aug 89 00:15:17 GMT Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Reply-To: hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Jeff Hartkopf) Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 15 Does anyone have a function or know where I could get one that will convert a double (or at least a float) to a character string? It looks like a hard problem to me, one that would take quite a while to write, and I might never get it working. If the double was fairly small (say 8 or 10 digits or so) the character string should just contain all the digits and decimal point, but if it was very huge (or very tiny) the string should contain the e+ or e- representation. I'd really appreciate any help on this. Thanks very much. Jeff Hartkopf Internet: hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU