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From: pl@kuling.UUCP (Per Lindgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Think C 4.0 sprintf question
Message-ID: <1310@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 89 11:48:14 GMT
Organization: DoCS, Uppsala University, Sweden
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A little question on Think C 4.0 and sprintf-ing of floats...

I use LSC 4.0 with the class library, but a few weeks ago a type of 
sprintf stopped to give a correct result. I have the scanf-patch, but
that doesn't matter, does it? Anyway, here is some code:

	char foo[20];
	float	aFloat;
	.
	.
	.
	aFloat = 3.14;
	sprintf(foo, "%f", aFloat); yields "0.000034" or something similarily
				    small in foo.

I tried to build a new project that did nothing more than the above, and then
it worked as expected! This of course makes it look like I am at fault, and
not LSC.

The problem occured *months* after I started on the program... I have tried
the easy things, rebuilding the entire project, the ANSI library, but 
nothing helped. Since I am fairly new to *C* programming (but not Mac-ditto),
I may have missed something rather simple... I am working on the same machine
(and disk) as when I started the project.

How do I get on the "macoops" (or whatever the name was) mailing list?

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Per Lindgren