#include <is.h>

[Andrew Koenig]

In article <175 at wzv.UUCP>, wietse at wzv.UUCP (Wietse Z. Venema) writes:
 
> int isfloat(s)	/* wants a null-terminated string with f.p. number */
> char *s;
> {
> 	char junk = 0;
> 	float fval;

> 	return (sscanf(s,"%f%c",&fval,&junk) == 1);
> }

Nope, this one doesn't work either.

Give it something like "1e500" and it dumps core
due to a floating-point overflow.

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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark at europa.att.com