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Re: Feature request: c-snprintf
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Feature request: c-snprintf |
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Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:51:41 -0600 |
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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 strings in the C locale?
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> gnulib does not have this, but it has modules c-strtod and c-strtold
> for conversion of numbers to strings in a locale independent way.
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).
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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