[erlang-questions] Reading a float from standard input

[Guilherme Andrade]

On 29 May 2016 at 16:00, Donald Steven <t6sn7gt@REDACTED> wrote:

> The following works: {X, _} = string:to_float(string:strip(io:get_line("X:
> "), right, $\n)),
>
> but is there a less cumbersome way to read a float from the standard input?
>

{ok, [F]} = io:fread("give me your floats: ", "~f")

Cheers,




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> Don
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