Subj : Re: sprintf() problem ?
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : maeder@glue.ch (Thomas Maeder [TeamB])
Date : Thu Jul 10 2003 11:24 pm

" Bruce Salzman" <bruce@nospam.org> writes:

> You should use "%lf" for a double and "%f" for a float variable.

That would be for the *scanf() functions.

*printf() functions don't need special support for float, since float
arguments are promoted to double when passed to them. In printf(), the "%f"
specifier is used for double arguments that are to be formatted like this:
[-]ddd.ddd .

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