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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  2. Path: uu4news.netcom.com!zodiac!szh
  3. From: szh@zcon.com (Syed Zaeem Hosain)
  4. Subject: Re: Float to String
  5. Message-ID: <1996Mar27.204235.1004@zcon.com>
  6. Sender: szh@zcon.com (Syed Zaeem Hosain)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: zodiac
  8. Reply-To: szh@zcon.com
  9. Organization: Z Consulting Group
  10. References: <4jbiga$69p@news1.mnsinc.com>
  11. Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:42:35 GMT
  12.  
  13. In article <4jbiga$69p@news1.mnsinc.com>, huang@mnsinc.com (Szu-Wen Huang) writes:
  14. >Maurizio Loreti (loreti@mxsld2.pd.infn.it) wrote:
  15. >: In article <4is29s$h1a@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>, scoshe@ix.netcom.com(Christopher Scott Shelton ) writes:
  16. >: >Is it possible to convert a float to a string?  like the itoa function.
  17. >
  18. >: Yes.
  19. >
  20. >Maurizio, there are two types of people who read your post:
  21. >
  22. >1.  Those that know the answer
  23. >2.  Those that don't know the answer
  24. >
  25. >Unless you're trying to be funny, the first type doesn't care what you
  26. >write, and the second type won't care unless you tell them the answer.
  27. >Since you exerted the effort to post a reply, perhaps it will not strain
  28. >you too much to mention the function 'sprintf()'?
  29.  
  30. I disagree. The right way, imho, is to politely refer people to the FAQ
  31. question that specifically covers this issue (and, yes, I did that in
  32. my response).
  33.  
  34. That way, the person will know to look there first, *before* posting a
  35. frequently asked question the next time!
  36.  
  37.                                 Z
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