Re: Converting packed decimal to a char array

[Tim Bronski <tim.bronski@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well your function needs to know the length and decimal places. So if 
you know those and can pass them to the function then just build the 
format string before using it in sprintf.

On 1/9/2015 10:00 AM, Jevgeni Astanovski wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> spend a lot of time and feeling like I run into a dead cycle with a
> problem, that looks trivial.
>
> I have packed decimals in my C programs that I need to convert to a
> char array, representing the number (not zero terminated string).
>
> For example:
>
> decimal (15,9) A ;
> char szTemp[32], sField[16] ;
>
> sprintf(szTemp, "%016D(15,9)", A) ;
> memcpy(sField, szTemp, 16) ;
>
> What I want to achieve is get a function, that receives A and returns sField.
> Of course it must support any types of decimal - not only decimal
> (15,9) but others like decimal(11,7), decimal (15,0), decimal (5,0)
> and so on. And, of course, decimal can be positive or negative...
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jevgeni.