Using SCANF with DOUBLE precision variables...

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In article <3672 at brl-smoke.ARPA>, DAVE%UWF.BITNET at WISCVM.WISC.EDU writes:
> I have been wanting to read in some real numbers, preferably thru SCANF, but I
> get nothing but 0.000 returned when i try to put the result of a SCANF in a var
> declared as DOUBLE.  The only thing that I could think of was either writing my
> own algorithm, or reading the number in as FLOAT and storing it in the DOUBLE


	What about using atof to read in the float ?