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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Implicit decimal points in floating-point reads
Keywords: scanf,floating point,decimal formats
Message-ID: <16255@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 24 May 91 20:57:51 GMT
References: <5366@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> <16222@smoke.brl.mil> <5409@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <5409@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> brotzman@nssdcb.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
>>It is also TRIVIAL to multiple a scanned integer by a power of 10 to scale
>>it thusly.
>Inspecting the fields, converting the values and dividing by some 
>power of ten (which must also be selected by a string inspection) is 
>trivial, but perhaps not all that efficient.

Sigh -- this is all wrong, and if he'd bothered to understand what was
said rather than complain about how it doesn't fit his preconceptions,
he'd have a good working solution.