int to string conversion

[Roberto Alsina]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Tilo Riemer wrote:

> Martin Wiebusch wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > i was just wondering whether there is a function to convert integer
> > values to strings in any of the libaries. I already tried itoa, Itoa and
> > IntToStr. I also noticed there ist an Itoa function defined in the
> > Integer.h header. But I don't really need an Integer class, just a
> > little function to convert usual int variables into strings.
> use printf or sprintf...

Keep in mind that if you use sprintf, you need to allocate enough space in
the buffer for the string conversion of the number.

So: always use careful formatting, specially with user provided data, or
your program can crash.

Just imagine someone feeding a 65537 digit integer number into it :-)

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