<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 May 2016 at 16:00, Donald Steven <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:t6sn7gt@aim.com" target="_blank">t6sn7gt@aim.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
The following works: {X, _} = string:to_float(string:strip(io:get_line("X: "), right, $\n)),<br>
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but is there a less cumbersome way to read a float from the standard input?<br></blockquote><div><br>{ok, [F]} = io:fread("give me your floats: ", "~f")<br><br>Cheers,<br><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Thanks.<br>
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Don<br>
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