strpct.c   [plain text]


/*	$NetBSD: strpct.c,v 1.2 1998/05/08 18:43:54 fair Exp $	*/

/*-
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 * by Erik E. Fair
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/*
 * Calculate a percentage without resorting to floating point
 * and return a pointer to a string
 *
 * "digits" is the number of digits past the decimal place you want
 * (zero being the straight percentage with no decimals)
 *
 * Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>, May 8, 1997
 */

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <machine/limits.h>

#include <stdio.h>

char * strpct __P((u_long, u_long, u_int));

char *
strpct(numerator, denominator, digits)
	u_long  numerator, denominator;
	u_int   digits;
{
        int i;
        u_long result, factor;
        static char     percent[32];

        /* I should check for digit overflow here, too XXX */
	factor = 100L;
        for(i = 0; i < digits; i++) {
                factor *= 10;
        }

        /* watch out for overflow! */
        if (numerator < (ULONG_MAX / factor)) {
                numerator *= factor;
        } else {
                /* toss some of the bits of lesser significance */
                denominator /= factor;
        }

        if (denominator == 0L)
                denominator = 1L;

        result = numerator / denominator;

        if (digits == 0) {
                (void) snprintf(percent, sizeof(percent), "%lu%%", result);
        } else {
                char    fmt[32];

                /* indirection to produce the right output format */
                (void) snprintf(fmt, sizeof(fmt), "%%lu.%%0%ulu%%%%", digits);

                factor /= 100L;         /* undo initialization */

                (void) snprintf(percent, sizeof(percent),
                        fmt, result / factor, result % factor);
        }       

        return(percent);
}