"Peter L. Peres" <plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org> writes:

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, John Wildberger wrote:

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On December 27, 2003 02:38 pm, Peter L. Peres wrote:

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Would it help if I'd say that I prefer to use form() for this ? ;-)

The << overloading is supposed to make your life easier, not the other way around.

Peter This gets better with every turn. ( for me more and more mysterious). What does form() do? How can I use it ?

#include <iostream.h>

cout << form( "%02X", buf[i] );

This should be in libio (i.e. do -lio when linking if the compiler complains). Why not do info iostream and spend some time reading (consider that this is not a tutorial - you are reading manual pages). I hope that you know how hopeless it is to learn C++, or any language, from 5 email messages and a few manual pages.

A word of warning: IIRC, "form" is a GNU extension. For maximum portability, format to a buffer using sprintf() and print the buffer. By now, you should be convinced that porting the original program from C to C++ yielded no benefits whatsoever at the cost of additional complexity, portability problems, and clumsiness. Note, I'm not saying that's true for every program but this particular program was not a good candidate. -- tim writer <tim-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> starnix inc. 905.771.0017 ext. 225 thornhill, ontario, canada http://www.starnix.com professional linux services & products -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml