Re: Doubles and Integers as strings.
"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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"Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]" <cpdaniel_remove_this_and_nospam@mvps.org.nospam>
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printf("This is your number %d",f)
This is most commonly used C-legacy method. A lot of people
like it for its simplicity and straightforwardness.
...and efficiency. Not uncommon for printf to be 10x to 100x faster than
iostreams.
Not uncommon on some systems, but under VC++ the penalty for using
iostreams should be way smaller.
iostream formatting is simply ugly. And it's not localizeable.
Uh, yes it is. That's what imbue is for.
Neither is *printf, though,
Uh, yes it is. That's what setlocale is for.
but there are printf alternatives (boost?) which are.
They can be made typesafe, too.
Just like iostreams.
P.J. Plauger
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