C: How to check if the float is not a char?

[Cheer]

Hello again,

I would like to ask how could I check if the input is right:
the program asks user to input a float from a keybord, but what if user inputs a char. Is there any funcion which can check that?

Thanks in advance.

[questionit]

Hello again,

I would like to ask how could I check if the input is right:
the program asks user to input a float from a keybord, but what if user inputs a char. Is there any funcion which can check that?

Thanks in advance.

Hi

You can use library function ischar() if you are using C to check if the input is a character or a quoted string. ischar returns TRUE if input was char , FALSE otherwise.

Manual method of doing it is this:

  while(scanf("%f", &myFloatVal) == 0) 
   printf("Invalid input, enter again");
 

On success, the scanf() function returns the number of items succesfully read.
0 means no successful input (float in this example) is read.

Regards
Qi

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