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Scanf formats
By KrK, 12 years ago, In English

Having used cin/cout streams all the time, I decided to learn scanf. Now I have some problems with reading long double. I use Dev-cpp.

There is a part of my program:
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typedef long double ld;
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pair <ld, ld> c[Maxn];
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scanf("%d", &n);
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) scanf("%Lf %Lf", &c[i].first, &c[i].second);
cout << c[0].first << " " << c[0].second << endl;
...

My input:
3
-5 9
0 1
5 -1

Output:
0 0

So no long doubles are read. I tried to replace "Lf" with "Le", "LE", "Lg", "LG", "e", "E", "f", "g", "G", "le", "lE", "lf", "lg", "lG". None of them seems to be working. Where is the problem?

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12 years ago, # |
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It's better to read/output data in double (not long double), e.g.:

        long double r = 1.234567890123456;
        printf("%.10lf", double(r));

There is a same topic: http://codeforces.com/blog/entry/2071
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12 years ago, # |
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%f - float
%lf - double
%llf - long double
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Haven't used dev-cpp for a long time. It uses mingw - the crippled port of gcc for windows OS. Read here more about this particular problem.
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A workaround is to read into a double variable and then cast it to long double.
Usually it is sufficient to read input as doubles.
The same goes for output.
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