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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Another scanf interpretation question
Message-ID: <21632@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 90 19:12:41 GMT
References: <21624@mimsy.umd.edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <21624@mimsy.umd.edu> I wrote:
>... strtol and strtoul are defined such that they `accept' numbers
>[consisting of only a sign]

Oops: although they return zero, they do not consume the sign, so that
given `strtol("-", &endptr, 0)', *endptr will be '-'.  In effect, they
do not accept numbers consisting of only a sign.

(In other words, the floating point question applies.)
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