Replacement for snprintf
drug
drug2004 at bk.ru
Thu Oct 31 08:27:50 UTC 2019
On 10/30/19 10:54 PM, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote:
> On Wednesday, 30 October 2019 at 19:19:06 UTC, berni44 wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 30 October 2019 at 17:50:03 UTC, Jon Degenhardt wrote:
>>> It's reasonably common to have numeric values written out in text
>>> format and read back in and used in subsequent computations. Not
>>> always a great idea, especially when done without much consideration
>>> for round-off errors. But it's not uncommon.
>>
>> But IMHO this is the fault of people who do this and not the fault of
>> a printing routine.
>
> You are correct, but people will still blame the printing routine.
I wouldn't state it is any fault. In some cases it is much more
productive to have text representation of data than binary ones.
Initially I believed too that binary representation is the more suitable
but afterwards I was forced to use text format and that gives me a good
result.
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