string conversion, format functions

[Shawn Pearce]

Strange, but they are in erlang, not strings:

	list_to_integer/1
	integer_to_list/1

since a string is a list, they work quite well. :)


HP Wei <hp@REDACTED> wrote:
> I have a string "123" and want to convert it to an integer
> or float, and vice versa.
> 
> In python, I go to the string module and
> there are string.atoi(), string.atof(), and str(number).
> So, by habit, I went to string module doc in Erlang
> I could not find the counterparts of these functions. Where are they ?
> 
> -------------------------
> B = 3.
> 
> I want to form a string "0003".  
>   ** Can io:format generate such a printout ? 
>   ** Can it be redirected to a string ?
>   ** If not, how do folks in Erlang world do this padding?
> 
> thanks,  
> hp
> 

-- 
Shawn.

  /*
   * [...] Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum
   * possible RTT.  I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP
   * to talk to the University of Mars.
   * PAWS allows us longer timeouts and large windows, so once implemented
   * ftp to mars will work nicely.
   */
  	-- from /usr/src/linux/net/inet/tcp.c, concerning RTT [round trip time]