wsprintf or swprintf

[Alex Georgiev]

Does anyone know what is the difference between wsprintf()
and swprintf()? From what I can gather out of MSDN they
_should_ do the exact same thing, and _should_ both work
with UNICODE chars. So I guess I am left wondering why are
there two of them and not one, and also which one should I
by using? Do they handle regular 8 bit char as well?

...or I am asking the wrong group of people on this topic?
Hopefully someone other there deals with UNICODE stuff and
will be able to help me...

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Alex Georgiev

[Todd Osborne]

wsprintf() does NOT handle floating point parameters. Other than that, one
is a CRT function and the other a Win32 implemented API.

Todd

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[Andrew E. Walldorff]

wsprintf also does not handle variable width and precission. For example,

float fVal = 10.1234567899
int cWidth = 10;
int cPrec = 2;

wsprintf( _T( "%*.*f" ), cWidth, cPrec, fVal ); // fails misserably
swprintf( L"%*.*f", cWidth, cPrec, fVal ); // works great

also note the potential differences in the format string.

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[Todd Osborne]

Very true. I think it is safe to say, use sprintf(), from the CRT. It is
more portable, and more capable.

Todd

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[Alex Georgiev]

Thanks for the responses! I made up my mind to use swprintf().
I'm using it for some UNICODE stuff, otherwise I would have
just used the regular sprintf().

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Alex Georgiev