[prog] c double/float I/O question

[dominik.schramm at gmxpro.net]

Hi,

Alice Moomlyn <alice_moomlyn at yahoo.com> writes:

>    double mydouble = 42.0;
> [...]
>    printf("Enter a double: ");
>    scanf("%f", &mydouble);

You should use: 
 scanf("%lf", &mydouble);

The "l" indicates that "f" means double (rather than float;
or long int rather than int for "i").
See the man page scanf(3) for details if it's installed on 
your system.

hope this helps,
regards
dominik