scanf « float « C Data Type Q&A

1. How scanf() handles floating point precision formats?    stackoverflow.com

Below is an excerpt from a program -

float val=214.20;
double val1=214.20;

printf("\n\n\nfloat :: %f,  %4.6f, %4.2f \n ",val,val,val);
printf("double:: %f,  %4.6f, %4.2f \n ",val1,val1,val1);

float :: 214.199997, ...

2. scanf using a %f for an integer    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to parse a string that has some numbers seperated by a space. However, these numbers could be integers or floats. Is there a way in scanf to ...

3. A little help here with long floats/scanf/printf    cboard.cprogramming.com

A little help here with long floats/scanf/printf for my getreal() function. I want it to be displayed as %3.2lf because the already defined values for MAXC/MINC/MAXP/MINP need to be printed out in the 0.00 or 000.00 format. Now I am confused on the scanf/printf part. For printf I want to display the %3.2lf but I am not sure what to put ...

4. cannot Scanf float? terminates program    cboard.cprogramming.com

5. Reading in char for float with scanf    cboard.cprogramming.com

6. Problem with scanf float..    cboard.cprogramming.com

7. rewritten scanf for floats    cboard.cprogramming.com

Hello all, I am currently working on a library of functions that I will be able to use in place of scanf(), simply because scanf() is unbelievably stupid. Anyways, I have code written for ints, longs, doubles, chars, but my code for floats is giving me problems. It almost comes out right every time, but it is imprecise in its calculation ...