Re: Locale breaks scanf()
On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 07:25:43PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Is there any solution to use '.' in any case as separator??
Yes. There are two of them:
1) Set the appropriate locale category to C.
2) Don't use the library functions to parse a defined
input format. A self-cooked string->double converter
is not too hard to write and has the exact semantics
you want.
> I consider this behaviour of locale as insane.
Don't blame the library for not being the exact thing you want it to be.
It is quite convenient for the user that they can use their local
conventions when giving input. You just shouldn't use the locale-affected
routines to parse specially formatted file. (For maximum portability, you
should even use 32 in place of ' ':-)
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