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Read a Floating-Point Value from the User, Part 2

Dave Sinkula Dave Sinkula is offline

Offline Aug 14th, 2005, 1:00 pm |

Some issues, such as leading whitespace and trailing characters that cannot be part of a number, were not handled in Read a Floating-Point Value from the User, Part 1. Here such issues receive lip service.

See also Read a Floating-Point Value from the User, Part 3.

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
 
int mygetd(double *result)
{
   char c, buff [ 32 ];
   return fgets(buff, sizeof buff, stdin) && !isspace(*buff) &&
   sscanf(buff, "%lf%c", result, &c) == 2 && (c == '\n' || c == '\0');
}
 
int main(void)
{
   double value;
   do
   {
      fputs("Enter a floating-point number: ", stdout);
      fflush(stdout);
   } while ( !mygetd(&value) );
   printf("value = %g\n", value);
   return 0;
}
 
/* my output
Enter a floating-point number: one
Enter a floating-point number:
Enter a floating-point number: f12.3
Enter a floating-point number: -45.67
value = -45.67
 
Enter a floating-point number: -12.3f
Enter a floating-point number:    125 help
Enter a floating-point number: 1.2.3
Enter a floating-point number: 1.23
value = 1.23
*/