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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sprintf badness
Keywords: sprintf, sscanf
Message-ID: <14913@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 21 Jan 91 21:01:12 GMT
References: <473@bally.Bally.COM>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <473@bally.Bally.COM> siva@bally.Bally.COM (Siva Chelliah) writes:
>     I am running into problems when I mix floats and integers in sprintf.

No, sprintf() is doing what you intended.  However, you made a mistake
in your use of sscanf(); a %f format specifier must have a corresponding
pointer-to-flaot argument, but you provided a pointer-to-double.