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1 | .\" Copyright (C) 2002 Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl> |
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| 26 | .TH QECVT 3 2002-08-25 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" | |
| 27 | .SH NAME | |
| 28 | qecvt, qfcvt, qgcvt \- convert a floating-point number to a string | |
| 29 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 30 | .B #include <stdlib.h> | |
| 31 | .sp | |
| 32 | .BI "char *qecvt(long double " number ", int " ndigits ", int *" decpt , | |
| 33 | .BI "int *" sign ); | |
| 34 | .sp | |
| 35 | .BI "char *qfcvt(long double " number ", int " ndigits ", int *" decpt , | |
| 36 | .BI "int *" sign ); | |
| 37 | .sp | |
| 38 | .BI "char *qgcvt(long double " number ", int " ndigit ", char *" buf ); | |
| 39 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 40 | The functions | |
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41 | .BR qecvt (), |
| 42 | .BR qfcvt () | |
| fea681da | 43 | and |
| e511ffb6 | 44 | .BR qgcvt () |
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45 | are identical to |
| 46 | .BR ecvt , | |
| 47 | .BR fcvt | |
| 48 | and | |
| 49 | .BR gcvt | |
| 50 | respectively, except that they use a | |
| 9ff08aad | 51 | .I "long double" |
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52 | argument |
| 53 | .IR number . | |
| 54 | See | |
| 55 | .BR ecvt (3) | |
| 56 | and | |
| 57 | .BR gcvt (3). | |
| 58 | .SH NOTES | |
| 59 | These functions are obsolete. Instead, | |
| 31e9a9ec | 60 | .BR sprintf () |
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61 | is recommended. |
| 62 | .SH "CONFORMING TO" | |
| aa651b39 | 63 | System V r4.0. Not seen in most common Unix implementations, |
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64 | but occurs in SunOS. Not supported by libc4 and libc5. |
| 65 | Supported by glibc. | |
| 66 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 67 | .BR ecvt (3), | |
| 68 | .BR ecvt_r (3), | |
| 69 | .BR gcvt (3), | |
| 70 | .BR sprintf (3) |