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Article #6144Re: Another scanf interpretation question
From: Chris Torek
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 19:12
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1990 19:12
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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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