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Message-ID: <422C7C8D.5080801@gamma-rs.ch>
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:08:45 +0100
From: "Charles L. Werner" <cw AT gamma-rs DOT ch>
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Organization: Gamma Remote Sensing AG
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Subject: error in scanf reading %le format and 00 exponent
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Hi,

I seem to have detected a serious error (for me of course...)
in the current cygwin 1.5.13 library.  The minus sign of input values  with a e+00 exponent, for example
-1.1e+00  fail to read the minus sign. Here is a short program rdf.c that demonstrates the
problem. Compiled with

gcc rdf.c -o rdf.exe

#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
   double a;
   while(1){
     printf("input: ");
     scanf("%le",&a);
     printf("a: %le\n",a);
   }
}

Here are some examples that show the bug:

$ rdf
input: -.11e+00
a: 1.100000e-01   !akkk

input: -1.1e+00
a: 1.100000e+00   !akkk

input: -1.1e00
a: 1.100000e+00  !akkk

input: -11e-01
a: -1.100000e+00  !akkk

input: -.11E+01   !ok
a: -1.100000e+00

input: -11e-01    !ok
a: -1.100000e+00

So the problem seems to be related to the case where the exponent is 00.

What is to be done?

Thanks

Charles


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Gamma Remote Sensing AG
Worbstr. 225
CH-3073 Gümligen, Switzerland

Tel: +41 31 951 70 05
FAX: +41 31 951 70 08
http://www.gamma-rs.ch



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