Might this be a locale issue? I believe that you can specify the scanf
parsing rules such that either of:
1,234.567
1.234,567
gets parsed as "one thousand, two hundred thirty-four decimal ..."
If cygwin's code base includes locale support, maybe the default local
has changed.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 11:44:26AM -0500, Mark Schamberger wrote:
> I have verified this problem on three different machines, each with the
> complete "current" installation of cygwin. (Windows NT4.0 sp6, Windows
> 2000 sp1)
>
> When using sscanf to read double values from a string, the resulting
> value is incorrect. The following piece of code demonstrates the
> problem:
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
> double d;
>
> sscanf("12.345","%lg",&d);
> printf("%lg\n",d);
> }
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Instead of the expected 12.345, it results in 12345 (it appears that
> decimal points and exponents are not understood properly).
>
> If I revert FROM cygwin 1.3.1-1 back TO cygwin 1.1.8-2, the bug
> disappears.
>
> Anyone else experience this problem?
>
> Thanks, Mark Schamberger
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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