Re: need of a sprintf like function...

Thad Smith wrote: 
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.

Setting the length parameter of snprintf to zero does not actually accomplish the task of allocating memory. It just allows you determine what length the string should have. You can then allocate a block of memory of the correct length, and call snprintf again to actually perform the conversion to string. See my other post in this thread.

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Simon.
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