Hi Neil.

22-Mar-03 11:27:04, Neil Heller wrote to Jonathan de Boyne Pollar


 Jd>> Bear in mind that not all uses of itoa() are for producing
 Jd>> strings that are  intended for display to human beings.  Some
 Jd>> people use base  36 for generating filenames, for example.

 NH> This interests me.  Would you please post a snippet of code for
 NH> generating filenames using base 36.

  char filename[]="foo.xxxxx";
  itoa( x ,filename+4,36)

 dunno what it's good for.

 IMO tmpnam()/tmpfile() are often more convenient.

 -=> Bye <=-

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