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From: karl@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Karl Ihrig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: FLOATING NULL?
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Date: 27 May 91 11:42:18 GMT
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I am writing a data analysis program, my first big project in C,
or any language for that mater.  

I take an ascii data file from a spreadsheet, and put it into a
string.  Then from the string I put it all in a structure, which
has strings for the column names and a 2 dimensional float array
for the numerical data.  My problem is that there are blank
spots in my real world data.  I am totally baffled.  How do I
mark the float element of the array as null, blank, or not
available?

Karl Enrique Ihrig
karl@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu