// Justin C. Miller
// University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
// made for: http://www.geocities.com/neonprimetime.geo/index.html
// done in: Borland Builder 4.0
// Date: 3-2-2001
// Title: using atof and atol

// atof converts a string to a floating point number
// atol converts a string to a long int

#include 
#include 


void Function(int nbr);

int main()
{
        char floating_number[5] = "75.3" ;
        char long_number[8] = "5312312" ;

        float a = atof(floating_number) ;
        long b = atol(long_number) ;

        cout << "char floating_number[5]=" << floating_number << endl ;
        cout << "atof(floating_number)=" << a << endl ;

        cout << "char long_number[5]=" << long_number << endl ;
        cout << "atof(long_number)=" << b << endl ;

        return 0 ;
}

void Function(int nbr)
{
        char FileName[5] = "file" ;

        char number[5] ;
        // itoa converts integers to strings
        // itoa takes 3 parameters
        // 1st is the integer to convert
        // 2nd is the string to store it it
        // 3rd is the base (most times it's 10 which is decimal)
        itoa(nbr, number, 10) ;

        char Extension[5] = ".txt" ;
        strcat(FileName, number) ;
        strcat(FileName,Extension) ;
        cout << FileName << endl ;
}

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