How to format a number using comma as thousands separator in C?

Here's a very simple implementation. This function contains no error checking, buffer sizes must be verified by the caller. It also does not work for negative numbers. Such improvements are left as an exercise for the reader.

void format_commas(int n, char *out)
{
    int c;
    char buf[20];
    char *p;

    sprintf(buf, "%d", n);
    c = 2 - strlen(buf) % 3;
    for (p = buf; *p != 0; p++) {
       *out++ = *p;
       if (c == 1) {
           *out++ = ',';
       }
       c = (c + 1) % 3;
    }
    *--out = 0;
}