Implicit decimal points in floating-point reads

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <5409 at dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> brotzman at nssdcb.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
>>It is also TRIVIAL to multiple a scanned integer by a power of 10 to scale
>>it thusly.
>Inspecting the fields, converting the values and dividing by some 
>power of ten (which must also be selected by a string inspection) is 
>trivial, but perhaps not all that efficient.

Sigh -- this is all wrong, and if he'd bothered to understand what was
said rather than complain about how it doesn't fit his preconceptions,
he'd have a good working solution.