K and R C, Solution to Exercise 5-2:
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C Program to get next floating point analog of getint.The routine getfloat is similar to the routine getint. getfloat skips whitespaces, records the sign, and stores the integer part of the number at the address in fp.
getfloat also handles the practional part of the number(but not scientific notation). the fractional part is added to *fp in the same fashion as the integer part. Read more about C Programming Language .

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#include<ctype.h>
#include<math.h>

int getfloat(float *fp)
{
 int ch;
 int sign;
 int fraction;
 int digits;

 while (isspace(ch = getch()))   /* skip white space */
  ;

 if (!isdigit(ch) && ch != EOF && ch != '+'
   && ch != '-' && ch != '.') {
  ungetch(ch);
  return 0;
 }

 sign = (ch == '-') ? -1 : 1;
 if (ch == '+' || ch == '-') {
  ch = getch();
  if (!isdigit(ch) && ch != '.') {
   if (ch == EOF) {
    return EOF;
   } else {
    ungetch(ch);
    return 0;
   }
  }
 }

 *fp = 0;
 fraction = 0;
 digits = 0;
 for ( ; isdigit(ch) || ch == '.' ; ch = getch()) {
  if (ch == '.') {
   fraction = 1;
  } else {
   if (!fraction) {
    *fp = 10 * *fp + (ch - '0');
   } else {
    *fp = *fp + ((ch - '0') / pow(10, fraction));
    fraction++;
   }
   digits++;
  }
 }

 *fp *= sign;

 if (ch == EOF) {
  return EOF;
 } else {
  ungetch(ch);
  return (digits) ? ch : 0;
 }
}

//for testing... try the different one!
#include<stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
 int ret;

 do {
  float f;

  fputs("Enter a number: ", stdout);
  fflush(stdout);
  ret = getfloat(&f);
  if (ret > 0) {
   printf("You entered: %fn", f);
  }
 } while (ret > 0);

 if (ret == EOF) {
  puts("Stopped by EOF.");
 } else {
  puts("Stopped by bad input.");
 }

 return 0;
}

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