tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael J Zehr) (12/24/90)
what (if anything) does the ANSI spec say about scanf using %f format and strtod for the following strings? "1ea" "1e " "1e1e" i've been surprised by a few results from VAXC recently, and i wonder what the "right" answers are. -michael
diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com ("diamond@tkovoa") (12/24/90)
Subject: Re: scanf parsing In article <1990Dec24.031228.5880@athena.mit.edu> tada@athena.mit.edu (Michael J Zehr) writes: >what (if anything) does the ANSI spec say about scanf using %f format >and strtod for the following strings? >"1ea" I believe that an interpretation ruling on this issue was posted a few months ago, stating that the "a" would be pushed back, the "1" and "e" are lost, and the result is matching failure. >"1e " .-1s/"a"/" " >"1e1e" This one does not seem to need interpretation. 1e1 is matched successfully and the last "e" is pushed back. -- Norman Diamond diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.