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.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
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.\" Linux libc source code
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.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991)
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.\" 386BSD man pages
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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 19:40:39 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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.\" Modified Fri Jun 25 12:10:47 1999 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
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.\"
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.TH ECVT 3 2007-07-26 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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ecvt, fcvt \- convert a floating-point number to a string
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <stdlib.h>
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.sp
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.BI "char *ecvt(double " number ", int " ndigits ", int *" decpt ,
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.BI "int *" sign );
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.sp
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.BI "char *fcvt(double " number ", int " ndigits ", int *" decpt ,
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.BI "int *" sign );
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.sp
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.in -4n
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Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
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.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
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.in
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.sp
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.BR ecvt (),
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.BR fcvt ():
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_SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.BR ecvt ()
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function converts \fInumber\fP to a null-terminated
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string of \fIndigits\fP digits (where \fIndigits\fP is reduced to a
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system-specific limit determined by the precision of a
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.IR double ),
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and returns a pointer to the string.
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The high-order digit is non-zero, unless
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.I number
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is zero.
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The low order digit is rounded.
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The string itself does not contain a decimal point; however,
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the position of the decimal point relative to the start of the string
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is stored in \fI*decpt\fP.
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A negative value for \fI*decpt\fP means that
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the decimal point is to the left of the start of the string.
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If the sign of
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\fInumber\fP is negative, \fI*sign\fP is set to a non-zero value,
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otherwise it is set to 0.
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If
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.I number
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is zero, it is unspecified whether \fI*decpt\fP is 0 or 1.
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.PP
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The
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.BR fcvt ()
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function is identical to
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.BR ecvt (),
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except that
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\fIndigits\fP specifies the number of digits after the decimal point.
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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Both the
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.BR ecvt ()
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and
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.BR fcvt ()
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functions return a pointer to a
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static string containing the ASCII representation of \fInumber\fP.
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The static string is overwritten by each call to
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.BR ecvt ()
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or
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.BR fcvt ().
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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SVr2;
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marked as LEGACY in POSIX.1-2001.
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.\" FIXME . Mar 08: The next POSIX.1 revision removes ecvt() and fcvt().
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.SH NOTES
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These functions are obsolete.
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Instead,
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.BR sprintf (3)
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is recommended.
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Linux libc4 and libc5 specified the type of
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.I ndigits
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as
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.IR size_t .
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Not all locales use a point as the radix character ("decimal point").
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR ecvt_r (3),
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.BR gcvt (3),
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.BR qecvt (3),
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.BR setlocale (3),
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.BR sprintf (3)
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