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From: tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael J Zehr)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: scanf parsing
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Date: 24 Dec 90 03:12:28 GMT
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what (if anything) does the ANSI spec say about scanf using %f format
and strtod for the following strings?

"1ea"
"1e "
"1e1e"

i've been surprised by a few results from VAXC recently, and i wonder
what the "right" answers are.

-michael