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Article #9427Re: Using SCANF with DOUBLE precision variables...
From: Don Kneller%Langridge
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1986 07:18
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1986 07:18
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In article <22@orion.UUCP> vaughan@orion.UUCP (Robert Vaughan) writes:
>>> I have been wanting to read in some real numbers, preferably thru SCANF
>>> ...
>>> declared as DOUBLE. (...)
>
>double foo;
>
> scanf("%lf",&foo);
>
Except, of course, in the infinite wisdom of Silicon Graphics whose
floats and doubles are the same size so one must use %f for both. The
"justification" is that they have yet another floating point type called
long float with gets the %lf format. It's painfully nonportable. Sigh.
--
Don Kneller
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!cbosgd!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!kneller From: kneller@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Don Kneller%Langridge) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Using SCANF with DOUBLE precision variables... Message-ID: <9939@cgl.ucsf.edu.ucsfcgl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 03:18:50 EDT Article-I.D.: cgl.9939 Posted: Mon Sep 29 03:18:50 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 20:22:31 EDT Reply-To: kneller@cgl.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Don Kneller%Langridge) Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, UCSF Lines: 18