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From: bernard@victor (BERNARD Sebastien [93-94])
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Subject: Re: Urgent! Help in string handling
Date: 28 Jul 1994 05:02:20 GMT
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N ANTONOPOULOS (antonopn@aston.ac.uk) wrote:
: Hello everybody,
:       I am develloping  a Graphical User Interface in X-Windows using C++.
: I have to finish my program by the beginning of august. I have the following
: problem :
:       If we have a float variable ie a which holds the value lets say 12.34
: how can i create a char pointer which will point to the string "12.34" ?
: It would be extremely important for me if i could get an answer as soon as
: possible.

Well :
#include <iostream.h>
#include <strstream.h>

main()
{
  float a = 12.34;
  char *toto;
  ostrstream TheStr;

  TheStr << a;

  toto = TheStr.str();

  cout << toto;
  return 0;
}

That's all I have to say.

: Thanks very much in advance.

: Moto:
: As computer scientist i am in total control of my experiments.
: Nick Antonopoulos
: e-mail: antonopn@aston.ac.uk