Re: Query on C/400

[Patrick Townsend <townsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vikas,

scanf() has worked consistently on all CISC and RISC versions for a long
time. It's an ANSI standard so you can just use it as you would on any
platform running C.

The normal data types you are used to in C will work with scanf just
like you think. So ints, shorts, longs, etc. will be fine using the
normal formatting options with scanf(). IBM does provide data type
definitions for AS/400 specific numeric types. See decimal.h for
descriptions of these. They work pretty much like you would hope. You
can cast them as needed for the ANSI C routines.

hth,
Patrick

Vikas Taskar wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a rather elementary query.Does the scanf statement work on all
> versions of OS/400/Are there different statements for inputting
> variables for different OS Versions?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> tats!
> 
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