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From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: scanf doesn't work for variables of type double
Message-ID: <660060@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Sep 89 20:59:12 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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> I posted  a question about scanf last week. I could not scanf a double

> careful enough. Using %lf and %F would have worked. Printf accepts %f
                               ^^^

NO. Don't use "%F". It was a non-standard extension to K&R at best, and
will not work at all for ANSI C (since %F is exactly equivalent to %f).

Stick to %lf.
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