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From: Aneesh Bhasin <contact.aneesh@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: What compiler is doing when we pass unnecessary parameters in 
	scanf
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:02:42 +0530
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Hi Kaushik,

any extra non-whitespace, non "%" characters are matched against the
input given from stdin - if they match, it is ignored and if it
doesn't match, no further input is taken.

In case of your second scenario, when you specify "p:%d" as string,
the program expects the input to be of the format "p:<some number>"
but since you give 100 as the input, no value is assigned to the
variable p (you can check the return value of scanf - its zero) and
hence, whatever junk value is in variable p, it is used for further
calculation.

With the second scenario, try giving the input as "p:100" and then p
should get value 100 as expected...

Hope that helps.
Aneesh

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:48 PM, RAM_LOCK <Kaushik.Sarkar@netapp.com> w=
rote:
>
> Hi,
> In the second scenario what value is it printing when i have given ex=
tra
> parameter in scanf?
> Does it vary from compiler to compiler?
>
> Scenario : I
> -------------
> root@kaushik_Fedora11 ~/C/LET_US_C/ch-1> cat simple-interest.c
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> void main ()
> {
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0int p;
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0float i=3D0;
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0printf ("enter the principal amount\n");
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0scanf ("%d",&p);
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0i =3D (p*5*5)/100;
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0printf ("Interterest is : %f\n",i);
> }
> root@kaushik_Fedora11 ~/C/LET_US_C/ch-1> ./a.out
> enter the principal amount
> 100
> Interterest is : 25.000000
>
>
> Scenario : II
> -------------
> > cat simple-interest.c
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> void main ()
> {
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0int p;
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0float i=3D0;
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0printf ("enter the principal amount\n");
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0scanf ("p:%d",&p);
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0i =3D (p*5*5)/100;
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0printf ("Interterest is : %f\n",i);
> }
> root@kaushik_Fedora11 ~/C/LET_US_C/ch-1> ./a.out
> enter the principal amount
> 100
> Interterest is : -9321198.000000
>
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