LONGTOA C-3

longtoa - convert LONG to ASCII

Longtoa converts the LONG value l to its ASCII representation and returns a pointer to that string. The format returned by getfint(C-3) provides the format to convert the LONG value. Longtoa removes all leading blanks from the resulting string before returning the result.

The parameter passed to longtoa must be a long integer (long). This is not necessarily the same as just integer (int). To make sure the correct value type is passed, the parameter should always be cast as a long:

getfint(C-3), flongtoa(C-3), atolong(C-3)

C/Base Reference Manual Chapter 13, "Formatting Data Values"

If the format is invalid, a pointer to an empty string is returned.

The return value points to static data whose contents are overwritten with every call.