Hi William.

28-Dec-02 12:27:53, William McBrine wrote to Jasen Betts


  -=> Jasen Betts wrote to Neil Heller <=-

 JB>> couldn't find "cstring" so I'm guessing you're just using C
 JB>> strings (type char*)

 WM> Yes, I almost wrote a reply similar to yours, but I was too unsure
 WM> about the meaning of "cstring". itoa() isn't standard, either
 WM> (though atoi() is).

Yeah that's why I used sprintf in my second reply.

 WM> Anyway, the big question for me is, why store these numbers as
 WM> ASCII at all? Why not store them as ints (or floats, if
 WM> necessary), and only convert once on input and once on output?
 WM> That would seem more efficient.

I can also see no reeason why that couldn't be done in most cases.

 -=> Bye <=-

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