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Manual Reference Pages  - GCVT (3)

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gcvt - convert a floating-point number to a string

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#include <stdlib.h> 



char *gcvt(double number, size_t ndigit, char *buf); 

The gcvt() function converts number to a minimal length NULL terminated ASCII string and stores the result in buf. It produces ndigit significant digits in either printf(3) F format or E format.

The gcvt() function returns the address of the string pointed to by buf.

ecvt(3), fcvt(3), sprintf(3)

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