Thanks, Hans.  Strange is the word for it.

So far the statement  char* pS;  gets me an error, "identifier is already
used in this scope" which is bS, because that is the only place in the
program it appears.

Now, char* pS; is declaring a variable which is a pointer???  I'm having
quite a bit of trouble figuring out how   *pS++=C; somemehow assigns
anything to the array Array[20].      Shouldn't there be a #byte statement
in there somewhere ... ?

So far, the best I can tell you about pointers is, randomly put stars in
your code, and eventually you'll find a combination that prints a string.
(ugh).

-- Lawrence

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans W" <hans@HANS-W.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: Tied up with String: OR the String Cheese Incident


> Bob,
> True CCS does not doe sprintf(), however they have a variation of printf()
> it's a bit strange to setup it goes like this
>
> char* pS;
> char Array[20]; // length your choice
>
> void MakeString(char c) // name this function to anything you like
> {
>    *pS++ = c;
> }
>
> Somewhere where you need it, make a call to printf like this
>
> printf( MakeString,"This is the string");
>
> The Array now contains the string "This is the string"
>
> It's handy for converting floats
>
> float fVar ;
> fVar = 123.456;
> printf( MakeString,"%f", fVar);
>
> Array now contains the ascii of float value 123.456;
>
> May be this has been covered before, I expect it has, hope it helps;
>
> Hans W
>
>
>
> Bob Barr wrote:
>
> > Lawrence Lile wrote:
> > >
> > >+AD4- The function you're looking for here is 'sprintf'. It takes the
> > >general
> > >+AD4- form:
> > >+AD4-
> > >+AD4- sprintf(string1, +ACIAJQ-d+ACI-, Hours)+ADs-
> > >+AD4-
> > >+AD4- See your docs for details on additional formatting options. It
> > >'prints'
> > >the
> > >+AD4- value to the string and has the same options as 'printf'.
> > >
> > >
> > >Hmmm.  CCS doesn't seem to recognize sprintf.  Anybody got any code for
> > >this
> > >one?
> > >
> >
> > AARGH!!!
> >
> > Sorry about the error on my part. I ASSumed that your compiler supported
> > sprintf. (I don't think that I've ever seen a compiler with printf
support
> > that didn't include the sprintf variant.)
> >
> > Now, if you will excuse me, I have some egg that I need to remove from
my
> > face.
> >
> > Regards, Bob
> >
> > BTW, is there some setting in your mail program that mangles characters?
> > Your subjects show up with '+AF' stuff instead of the brackets around
the
> > PIC topic tag.
> >
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