Re: [Libclc-developers] contribution(?): string function ultostr()

[Michael B.A. <mb...@io...>]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:16:23 +0100 (MET)
Jan Engelhardt <je...@li...> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> copied this from my personal lib as I thought
> this might be worth sharing, no?
> 
> /*=============================================================================
> ultostr
>   by Jan "Hirogen2" Engelhardt <hirogen2 at gmx de>, 2003
>   -- distributed under the Frontier Artistic License and GNU General Public
>   -- License. See doc/FAL1.txt and doc/GPL2.txt for details.
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> NAME
>     ultostr - convert an unsigned long integer to a string
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>     unsigned char *ultostr(unsigned long num, unsigned long base,
>      unsigned char *ptr, size_t size);
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>     The ultostr() function converts the number NUM to a string, in
>     base BASE notation. BASE must be between 2 and 36 inclusive. To
>     summarize it, this function does (nearly) exactly the opposite
>     of strtoul().

I like it! No point in invoking sprintf just to convert a number like this.

Mike

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