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15 years ago

C CODE Integer as ASCII to printf string...HELP!!!

Hi all, As like the title, now i have an unsigned integer that contain 4 ASCII code for a string: 0x41424344--------- my unsigned integer I would like to print the out "ABCD" where th...
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14 years ago

It is generally safer to use arithmetic to get the byte values from an integer.

So something like: 

void print_val(unsigned int val)
{
    unsigned char c;
    c = val;
    c = val >>= 8;
    c = val >>= 8;
    c = val >> 8;
    printf("%c%c%c%c", c, c, c, c);
}