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Subject: Re: Using SCANF with DOUBLE precision variables...
Message-ID: <108@nonvon.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 16:52:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: nonvon.108
Posted: Mon Sep 22 16:52:06 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Sep-86 04:23:05 EDT
References: <3672@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Organization: Nonvon Systems Computer Research Group
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Summary: ftoa

In article <3672@brl-smoke.ARPA>, DAVE%UWF.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU writes:
> I have been wanting to read in some real numbers, preferably thru SCANF, but I
> get nothing but 0.000 returned when i try to put the result of a SCANF in a var
> declared as DOUBLE.  The only thing that I could think of was either writing my
> own algorithm, or reading the number in as FLOAT and storing it in the DOUBLE


	What about using atof to read in the float ?