Thread: Problem with double conversion to char*

Hi I am working with Opencv and it has a function cvGetCaptureProperty which returns a double. There is one case where I need to convert the double into char* and the sample code is provided below. The problem is that, the conversion does not return any value.


double f = cvGetCaptureProperty(capture, CV_CAP_PROP_FOURCC);
char* fourcc = (char*) (&f);
cout<<"\nf_double: "<<f<<"\nfourcc: "<<fourcc<<"\n";

Output: f has a value but fourcc has no value.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

Regards
Luhfluh

Originally Posted by Elysia

Use sprintf. You should probably also read up on strings and pointers to understand why what you do doesn't work.

Hi, thanks for the heads up. Figured it out after some strings and pointer notes, much appreciated

That statement will print the location of f; for its contents use *fourcc.