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From: John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: coercing an integer to a string
Date: 1998/11/16
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Chris Morgan <mihalis@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>dummy@e.mail (Emmanuel M. D�carie) writes:

>Think about it a bit. Function 1 requires you to build up a string
>piece by piece. Can you work out how to decide how many 1000s, 100s,
>10s, units and so on the number contains? Then you would just need to
>work out how to join the characters together. 
>
>Similarly the 2nd function - work out what each character means in
>terms of numerical value and then add them together. It's not as hard
>as it seems.

It's even easier than it seems if you use the facilities of the language 
that Tom Moran has mentioned.


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