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Top Forums Programming C++ Formatting Numbers to Strings Post 302460335 by Leedor on Wednesday 6th of October 2010 12:49:31 PM
Old 10-06-2010
C++ Formatting Numbers to Strings

Hi All,

Sorry to say I have 0 experience writing C++ but have been asked to write a piece of code that will take a double input and an integer for number of decimal places as well as integer for padding and output a string that represents the double formatted (with comma thousand separators - could be parameterised too, not necessary for now).

eg.

Code:
formatNum(1123.45,3,8) = "   1,123.450"
formatNum(1123.45,2,8) = "   1,123.45"
formatNum(1123.45,1,8) = "   1,123.4" (truncation rather than rounding)

The padding should actually align the decimal points (or lack thereof) eg

Code:
                   1
                   1.10
                   1.11
                 111.11
               1,111
           1,111,111.10

The code I have so far is (admittedly probably useless):

Code:
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
char *formatNum(double num, int dec, int pad)
{
  char* OutStr;
  sprintf(OutStr,"%f",num);
  return OutStr;
}

Help would be highly appreciated as always!

Lee

Last edited by Scott; 10-06-2010 at 01:54 PM.. Reason: More code tags
 

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