Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: scanf doesn't work for variables of type double
Message-ID: <1989Sep15.183707.3132@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <12988@uhnix1.uh.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 89 18:37:07 GMT

In article <12988@uhnix1.uh.edu> jsmng@csune.cs.uh.edu () writes:
>... According to K&R, %f for double should be allowed in scanf...

Please read K&R more carefully.  In scanf, the specification for
double is %lf.  In *printf*, %f works for either float or double,
but in *scanf*, you have to make the distinction.
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