harbour-core/harbour/contrib/hbct/ftoc.c

/*
 *  $Id$
 */

/*
 * Harbour Project source code:
 *   CT3 Number and bit manipulation functions: - FTOC()
 *                                              - CTOF()
 *
 * Copyright 2002 Walter Negro - FOEESITRA" <waltern@foeesitra.org.ar>
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#include "ct.h"

/*  $DOC$
 *  $FUNCNAME$
 *      FTOC()
 *  $CATEGORY$
 *      CT3 number and bit manipulation functions
 *  $ONELINER$
 *  $SYNTAX$
 *      FTOC( <nFloatingPointNumber> ) --> cFloatingPointNumber
 *           
 *  $ARGUMENTS$
 *      <nFloatingPointNumber> Designate any Harbour number.
 *
 *  $RETURNS$
 *      FTOC() return a string with the size of DOUBLE.
 *      ATTENTION: different implementations or platforms of Harbour, they 
 *      could produce different format in the string returned by FTOC().
 *
 *  $DESCRIPTION$
 *      Harbour internal numbers in Floating Point are stored in data type
 *      DOUBLE. FTOC() returns these bits as an string. In this way,
 *      numbers con be saved more compactly.
 *      
 *      TODO: add documentation
 *  $EXAMPLES$
 *  $TESTS$
 *  $STATUS$
 *      Started
 *  $COMPLIANCE$
 *  $PLATFORMS$
 *      All
 *  $FILES$
 *      Source is ftoc.c, library is libct.
 *  $SEEALSO$
 *      CTOF(), XTOC()
 *  $END$
 */

HB_FUNC( FTOC )
{
   union
   {
      double value;
      char   string[sizeof( double )];
   } xConvert;

   xConvert.value = hb_parnd( 1 );

   hb_retclen( xConvert.string, sizeof( double ) );
}


/*  $DOC$
 *  $FUNCNAME$
 *      CTOF()
 *  $CATEGORY$
 *      CT3 number and bit manipulation functions
 *  $ONELINER$
 *  $SYNTAX$
 *      CTOF( <cFloatingPointNumber> ) --> nFloatingPointNumber
 *           
 *  $ARGUMENTS$
 *      <cFloatingPointNumber> Designate a string that contains a Harbour
 *      number in flotaing point format.
 *      ATTENTION: different implementations or platforms of Harbour, they 
 *      could produce different format in the string returned by FTOC().
 *
 *  $RETURNS$
 *      CTOF() return the floating point number that corresponds to the
 *      string passed.
 *
 *  $DESCRIPTION$
 *      Character strings created with FTOC() or XTOC() are convert into
 *      Harbour floating point number
 *      
 *      TODO: add documentation
 *  $EXAMPLES$
 *  $TESTS$
 *  $STATUS$
 *      Started
 *  $COMPLIANCE$
 *  $PLATFORMS$
 *      All
 *  $FILES$
 *      Source is ftoc.c, library is libct.
 *  $SEEALSO$
 *      FTOC(), XTOC()
 *  $END$
 */

HB_FUNC( CTOF )
{
   union
   {
      double value;
      char   string[sizeof( double )];
   } xConvert;

   if( hb_parclen( 1 ) >= sizeof( double ) )
   {
      memcpy( xConvert.string, hb_parc( 1 ), sizeof( double ) );
      hb_retnd( xConvert.value );
   }
   else
      hb_retnd( 0.0 );
}