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How to read and write "double" in GNU C++ 4.6, MS C++ , C++ 0x?
By luyi0619, 14 years ago, In English

I found that "lf" is ok for GNU C++ and MS C++, but not ok for C++ 0x using printf. Also, "f" works well for them.

float and double both use "f" ?

How about scanf ?

Could any body offer me some references?

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%f is for float only. %lf is for double. It's both for scanf and printf.

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To operate on double, use %f or %lf with printf(), but only %lf with scanf(). Reference: the C99 standard, 7.19.6.1.7, 7.19.6.1.8 and 7.19.6.2.11. C++11 is based on C99 (1.1.2) and includes its standard library (17.2, 27.9.2). So the same format must work for C++11, too.

If it does not work, then your C++ implementation might not be fully conformant.

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Traditionally, only %f can be used in printf for printing doubles and floats. The main idea is that when passing any floating-point numbers (float or double) to variadic functions like printf they are automatically promoted to double, so you don't have to (or can't) distinguish double from float and only one format specifier is used in printf. But this confused some people, so the new version of C (but not the current version of C++) allows the use of %lf for doubles in printf.

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