[Courses] [C] question about concatenating ints to strings (simple question)

[Luis M Ibarra]

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 18:27, Morgon Kanter wrote:
> how would I cast an integer value to a character before passing it to 
> stringcat? For example:
> 
> int a = 1;
> char current_number[5];
> 
> strcat(current_number, (char *)a); <---- this line gives SIGSEGV (segfault)

Don't think in casts has; "convert this to this other type". Cast says
"take this and pretend that it is other type" but no conversion is done.


To convert your integer into a string you can use something like
snprintf;

snprintf(current_number, sizeof(current_number), "%d", a);


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Luis M Ibarra <mibarra at ximian.com>
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