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From: wew@naucse.UUCP (Bill Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turboc floating scanf
Message-ID: <1114@naucse.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 89 16:46:21 GMT
References: <370@atlas.tegra.UUCP>
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
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From article <370@atlas.tegra.UUCP>, by vail@tegra.UUCP (Johnathan Vail):
> 
> I am using the "latest" version of TurboC and am trying to use scanf
> to read floats.  I give tcc a '-f' or '-f87' switch but I still get a
> run-time error from scanf when it tries to read in a float.
>
scanf is one of the worst C functions.  I would suggest that you create
a character buffer, read into it and use the atof function to convert
it to a float var.  For example:

       float x;
       char buf[12];

       buf[0]=10;
       gets(buf);
       x=atof(buf);
 
Please make sure to include the correct header files for these
routines (refer to your manual).

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Bill Wilson                          (Bitnet: ucc2wew@nauvm)
Northern AZ Univ
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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