Re: need of a sprintf like function...

From: Thad Smith <ThadSmith@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:22:24 -0700

ypjofficial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

if there any library function which can avoid allocating memory to str.
i.e i can write
char * str = NULL;
and directly pass str to that printf like function and the function
will internally handle the allocation of memory and releasing it.

Yes. The C99 function snprintf has a length parameter, which you may set to 0.

--
Thad

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