On Monday 17 March 2003 06:26 am, Richard Osborne wrote:

> 2.      Unfortunately I do need most of the functionalities of the
> sprintf command.  Below is a cut down of what I am trying to
> achieve, for now.  itoa will not be enough for what I need in the
> long run.
>
> int stringLength;
> char tempChar[20], tempChar[20];
> float fullPixelMove = 2.57;
>
> sprintf(tempChar,"%.2f", fullPixelMove);

See the float printing routine that I posted earlier.

> stringLength = strlen(tempChar);
> sprintf(tempChar2,"0.%c%c",tempChar[stringLength-2],tempChar[string
>Length-1] );

That's just plain inefficient.

/* fill in tempChar with float */
unsigned char stringLength;

stringLength = fmtfloat(fullPixelMove, tempChar, 2);
tempChar[ stringLength - 4 ] = '0';

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