On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:18:12PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote:
So, for numbers to strings, there are four ways to proceed:
1) Use the snprintf_l function available on MacOS X 10.5.
Drawback: Unportable, and gnulib cannot provide an easy replacement
for
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Eric Blake wrote:
> Huh? ... John is asking for converting numbers to strings
Yes. Ops, what I wrote was complete nonsense.
So, for numbers to strings, there are four ways to proceed:
1) Use the snprintf_l function available on MacOS X 10.5.
Drawback: Unportable, and gnulib cannot pr
Eric Blake writes:
> Huh? strtod converts strings to numbers, but John is asking for
> converting numbers to strings (about all that affects this is the use of
> the optional ' flag, as well as the choice of . character in floating point).
For what it's worth, it's the '.' character in floating
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According to Bruno Haible on 3/24/2009 6:38 AM:
> John Darrington wrote:
>> In pspp, we've been using the c-ctype module. Would it also be
>> possible to produce a snprintf function and friends which ignores
>> locale settings and always formats strin
John Darrington wrote:
> In pspp, we've been using the c-ctype module. Would it also be
> possible to produce a snprintf function and friends which ignores
> locale settings and always formats strings in the C locale?
gnulib does not have this, but it has modules c-strtod and c-strtold
for conve
In pspp, we've been using the c-ctype module. Would it also be
possible to produce a snprintf function and friends which ignores
locale settings and always formats strings in the C locale?
J'
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