Converting a float to char*

[Algorien]

I'm making a game in OpenGL which already has a function to print a string and now I'm trying to add a function to print a numeric value in the same way by converting the number to a character string and then sending it to the same printing function(which works). I've tried gcvt, sprintf etc. and some(including the mentioned 2) have printed the correct value initially, but they make my program freeze. so if anyone knows a good way to do this, that'd be great. The code I'm currently trying to use is:

void print_numberf(float tX, float tY, float tSize, float fNumber)
{
char num[10];
//the problem
_gcvt(fNumber, 10, num);
//the following line of code is fine
print_string(tX, tY, 0, tSize, 1.0, num, FALSE);
return;
}

Thanks in advance.
-MAD Programming's
Daniel Borgman

[mr1yh1]

i typed this
char num[10];
_gcvt((double)1000/3, 10, num);
cout<<num;

and it gave 333.3333333 -->10 + 1 characters.
i guess this overflow your num[].

http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/cstdlib/gcvt.html
link say use a buffer which is 8-9 character larger than ...

[jonnin]

yes, thats likely the problem. A float has 15 or so digits, make num[20] to be safe.

[Danny]

_gcvt is not a standard function so I can't vouch for it. However, a decent conversion function should be able to truncate the result so that it fits into the buffer. I would use strinsgstream for such conversions anyway -- it's safer and simpler.

[Algorien]

Thanks a bunch for the help, you guys. I increased the size of num and it worked, which is awesome. Thanks again.

[Algorien]

Aw, jeez. I just tried to impliment it with a variable passed for the number and it didn't work, so I was wondering how strinsgstream works. Just in case, here's my current code again:

void print_numberf(float tX, float tY, float tSize, float fNumber)
{
char num[20];
_gcvt(fNumber, 10, num);
print_string(tX, tY, 0, tSize, 1.0, num, FALSE);
return;
}

and I also used

sprintf(num, "%d", fNumber);

which didn't work.

[Danny]

You can find examples of stringstream usage here: http://www.devx.com/DevX/LegacyLink/9399

[Algorien]

I actually can't use sstream with Dev-C++(my compiler)