data-type-conversion

Conversion: uid_t to string, off_t to string

Hello, I am currently writing a systems programming homework and in one part i need to get some information of a file in a directory. for the stat of file, we have ctime() function which converts time_t type to string and returns a pointer to it. but how about the uid_t and off_t types? I searched through to internet and couldnt find ...

Accepted practice for converting an Object to and from a String in Java ?

What is the commonly accepted method for converting arbitrary objects to and from their String representations, assuming that the exact class of the object is known ? In other words, I need to implement some methods similar to the following: public interface Converter { /** * Convert this object to its String representation. ...

C# - How to intelligently & safely convert a Double to String?

Hi Guys, Trying not to repeat myself (to be DRY) here, help me out. =) I have a double which represents a rating / 5. The possible values are: 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5. I want to convert this to a string without the decimal place. So the values would become: "0", "05", "1", "15", "2", "25", "3", "35", "4", "45",...

Converting varchar to int using phpmyadmin

ok.. Im a complete noob at SQL and having trouble... Im trying to convert a table from varchar to int.. The reason for this is because Im trying to order the numbers on my website by the highest first.. Thats not the problem but because its a varible its odering them wrong. When I try changing the table in PhpMyAdmin to an INT I get thi...