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@(#)ecvt.3 6.4 (Berkeley) 04/20/91

.AT 3 ecvt, fcvt, gcvt - output conversion

 char *ecvt(value, ndigit, decpt, sign)  double value;  int ndigit, *decpt, *sign; 

 char *fcvt(value, ndigit, decpt, sign)  double value;  int ndigit, *decpt, *sign; 

 char *gcvt(value, ndigit, buf)  double value;  char *buf; 

These interfaces are obsoleted by printf(3).

They are available from the compatibility library, libcompat.

Ecvt converts the value to a null-terminated string of ndigit ASCII digits and returns a pointer thereto. The position of the decimal point relative to the beginning of the string is stored indirectly through decpt "" (negative means to the left of the returned digits). If the sign of the result is negative, the word pointed to by sign "" is non-zero, otherwise it is zero. The low-order digit is rounded.

Fcvt " is identical to " "ecvt, except that the correct digit" has been rounded for Fortran F-format output of the number of digits specified by \(*_ndigits .

Gcvt converts the value to a null-terminated ASCII string in buf and returns a pointer to buf. It attempts to produce ndigit significant digits in Fortran F format if possible, otherwise E format, ready for printing. Trailing zeros may be suppressed.

printf(3) The return values point to static data whose content is overwritten by each call.