Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!dahlia!dsebbo
From: dsebbo@dahlia.uwaterloo.ca (David Ebbo)
Subject: Re: Neophyte seeks scanf() help
Message-ID: <1991Mar9.043725.23936@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Owner of Many System Processes)
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1991 04:37:25 GMT
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>From: chandler@kinetics.com (Mark Chandler)
>
>float get_tax(void)
>{
>         float tax;
>	
>	  printf("Enter the tax: ");
>	  scanf("%f", &tax);
>	  printf("The tax is %.4f\n", tax);
>	
>	  return tax;
>}
>
>Running it produces the following:
>
>Enter the tax: 0.01
>The tax is 0.1000
>           ^^^^^^

That looks like a bug in your compiler, since your code is fine.
I tried it on gcc, and it worked fine (i.e. The tax is 0.0100).

David Ebbo.