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From: mcdougal@tartarus.uchicago.edu (Tom McDougal)
Newsgroups: uchi.cs.cs355,comp.lang.c++
Subject: floats break istrstream
Keywords: strstream,floats
Message-ID: <1991May7.162120.20570@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 7 May 91 16:21:20 GMT
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I was trying to read a float off the command line using the nifty
new istrstream function:

    float x;
    istrstream(argv[1]) >> x;

but no matter what I put on the command line, x=0.

Changing x to a double fixed the problem.

-Tom (mcdougal@cs.uchicago.edu)
   --Tom  (mcdougal@cs.uchicago.edu)