Inside Macintosh: PowerPC Numerics / Part 2 - The PowerPC Numerics C Implementation

Chapter 9 - Conversion Functions

Converting Between Decimal Formats

MathLib provides a scanner for converting from decimal strings to decimal structures and a formatter for converting from decimal structures to decimal strings.

dec2str	Converts decimal structures to decimal strings. The PowerPC Numerics formatter.
str2dec	Converts decimal strings to decimal structures. The PowerPC Numerics scanner.