• hellcatv hotmail.com Jun 02 2004
• "Walter" <newshound digitalmars.com> Jun 04 2004
• hellcatv hotmail.com Jun 04 2004
• "Walter" <newshound digitalmars.com> Jun 04 2004

hellcatv hotmail.com writes:

I was desparately browsing through the phobos lib... and I haven't found a way
to copy a real to a string
I tried snprintf but it would often leave garbage in the string (I'm not sure
why yet...but it wouldn't work with gdc)
so I wrote my own ftoa
http://svn.dsource.org/svn/projects/deliria/turing/

also I have the problem that since it's called ftoa import won't bring it in
because when I call 
ftoa() it says "cannot call module" instead of calling the function

"Walter" <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:

This should work:

    char[100] buffer;
    snprintf(buffer, buffer.length, "%Lg", r);

<hellcatv hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c9llt3$bs3$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 I was desparately browsing through the phobos lib... and I haven't found a


 to copy a real to a string
 I tried snprintf but it would often leave garbage in the string (I'm not


 why yet...but it wouldn't work with gdc)
 so I wrote my own ftoa
 http://svn.dsource.org/svn/projects/deliria/turing/

 also I have the problem that since it's called ftoa import won't bring it


 because when I call
 ftoa() it says "cannot call module" instead of calling the function

hellcatv hotmail.com writes:

that's nice but snprintf isn't even provided in dmd0.91 (at least it claims it
doesn't exist)
only sprintf
and the buffer overrun stuff that it could (and probably will not) cause is just
unfriendly.

why is there an atof and no ftoa? :-)
or at least a std.string function. either is bound to be faster than having
snprintf parse a format string then assign to a preallocated array of
undetermined length, and return that to the host program which then has to read
the whole string, determine the ending length and truncate it at that point for
the rest of the D program to use :-)


In article <c9p94o$2kb6$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
This should work:

    char[100] buffer;
    snprintf(buffer, buffer.length, "%Lg", r);

<hellcatv hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c9llt3$bs3$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 I was desparately browsing through the phobos lib... and I haven't found a


 to copy a real to a string
 I tried snprintf but it would often leave garbage in the string (I'm not


 why yet...but it wouldn't work with gdc)
 so I wrote my own ftoa
 http://svn.dsource.org/svn/projects/deliria/turing/

 also I have the problem that since it's called ftoa import won't bring it


 because when I call
 ftoa() it says "cannot call module" instead of calling the function

"Walter" <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:

<hellcatv hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:c9pclq$2pn6$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 that's nice but snprintf isn't even provided in dmd0.91 (at least it


 doesn't exist)
 only sprintf


There's std.c.stdio._snprintf().

 and the buffer overrun stuff that it could (and probably will not) cause


 unfriendly.


I know.

 why is there an atof and no ftoa? :-)
 or at least a std.string function. either is bound to be faster than


 snprintf parse a format string then assign to a preallocated array of
 undetermined length, and return that to the host program which then has to


 the whole string, determine the ending length and truncate it at that


 the rest of the D program to use :-)


You're right. It just hasn't been done yet.