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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: scanf doesn't work for variables of type double
Message-ID: <11074@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 15 Sep 89 16:43:48 GMT
References: <12988@uhnix1.uh.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <12988@uhnix1.uh.edu> jsmng@csune.cs.uh.edu () writes:
>According to K&R, %f for double should be allowed in scanf.

Nope.  %f is used for float, not double, in scanf format specs.
Use %lf for double.