integer to string function (itoa())

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1990Jun30.071229.23965 at agate.berkeley.edu> dankg at monsoon.Berkeley.EDU (Dan KoGai) writes:
>	Maybe.  But I was wondering why there's no itoa() in most C libraries:
>atoi() exists and often used in scanf().  Why do we let [sf]printf() do
>all conversion instead of calling itoa...

Such things existed once.  They fell pretty much out of use once sprintf
and friends became available, since there wasn't a spectacular difference
in efficiency and the more general tool was easier to remember (because it
got so much more use).
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