2001/04/2
Dear Listers
I need to enter a few floating point numbers, either in decimal
or scientific notation to do some simple arithmetic. I thought,
perhaps rather naively, that this would be fairly straight
forward. I thought that a string could be entered in an editable
field which then could be operated on with sscanf to unformat it.
To my dismay I find that the string manager only supports
StrPrintF and not the inverse. The Companion indicates that
standard C functions might be used at the expense of larger code
but also cautions that many "don't work" (page 101).
I also examined the calculator example but that seems to be
incredibly complex for a simple task.
Questions:
1) Can sscanf be used and if so what header would be needed?
2) Can anybody suggest a neat way to input floating point
numbers?
Sincerely and thanks in advance
H.D. Valliant
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