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From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: scanf problem in TC v2.01.
Message-ID: <25E99D18.13194@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 26 Feb 90 21:18:16 GMT
References: <204@sdscal.UUCP> <13317@cbnewsd.ATT.COM> <2524@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>
Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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In article <2524@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> marc@cpsc.UCalgary.CA (Marc Schroeder) writes:
$There IS a way around this. You don't even have to use atof() if you don't
$want to (I just gave up on it). You can use sscanf() instead (atof() probably
$just calls sscanf() anyways)..

   Naw, it would be the other way around, since the purpose of atof is a
subset of the purpose of sscanf.  What sscanf will do is take a chunk of
the string you feed it and send it to atof or atoi (or whatever, depending
on the desired result type) to be converted.
-- 
Stephen M. Dunn                               cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
          <std_disclaimer.h> = "\nI'm only an undergraduate!!!\n";
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