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From: kneller@cgl.ucsf.edu (Don Kneller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turboc floating scanf
Message-ID: <11317@cgl.ucsf.EDU>
Date: 12 Jan 89 19:25:46 GMT
References: <370@atlas.tegra.UUCP> <1114@naucse.UUCP>
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Reply-To: kneller@socrates.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Don Kneller)
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In article <1114@naucse.UUCP> wew@naucse.UUCP (Bill Wilson) writes:
>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.
>>
>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:
>       float x;
>       char buf[12];
>
>       gets(buf);
>       x=atof(buf);

gets() is also a terrible function to use.  It is too easy to overwrite
memory because gets() does not know how long the input buffer is.  It
is much safer to use fgets().

- don
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