unsigned long long to string

Hi, i was looking for a function to convert a unsigned long long (64 bits) to a char string. i rather not use stringstreams for the speed and i was hoping there would be a already defined function in the CRT. ofcourse i can create a function myself, but this would be a waste of time and its always nicer if you dont have to reinvent the weel. besides, i've got to use this function many times so if its already in the CRT, why not use it? :)

can anyone help?

thanks already!

>> its always nicer if you dont have to reinvent the weel

Erm, so why not stringstreams then? You can use this function - http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showp...32&postcount=7 (I seem to link to this a lot)

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sprintf(buffer, "%lld", my_long_long_number);

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I thought long longs only existed in C99, not C++.

BTW, itsme86, it would be %llu for an unsigned long long.

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Originally Posted by dwks

BTW, itsme86, it would be %llu for an unsigned long long.

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Oops. Thanks for catching that.

I'm almost certain that long longs only exist in C99.

BTW, twomers:

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Originally Posted by twomers

Erm, so why not stringstreams then?

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The OP said:

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i rather not use stringstreams for the speed

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thanks for the links, i couldnt find any recourses about llu. and i knew about the stringstream. the problem is that my function is accesed by 40 threads at the same time all in a loop and they just need the unsinged int64 for a brief moment. it would be a waste of speed to use stringstreams there. everything in the app is based on speed so

I take back what I said about long longs only being in C99. Apparently they're planned for the next version of C++ too.

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thanks for the links, i couldnt find any recourses about llu.

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Good luck; I'm under the impression that Microsoft's implementation of *printf() doesn't support long longs, or at least it didn't for version 6.0. You could look into strtoll(). [edit] Which converts a string to a long long and not the other way around. Whoops. Maybe not. You could read the FAQ, though; there's a section on converting numbers to strings. [/edit]

I'm not even sure stringstreams will work on your platform even if you have long long available, since that would just be a non-standard extension.

>i couldnt find any recourses about llu.
If %lld and %llu don't work, you can try %I64d and %I64u.

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sprintf(buffer, "%I64d", my_long_long_number);

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thanks, but llu just works fine :)