Thread: data type of passed argument

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    data type of passed argument

    Hello, I want to pass the name of double variables as arguments to a function. I tried to do it by passing them as string arrays. They passed OK, but the function did not act upon the original double variables as I had intended.
    Can someone please help ? - Can this be done in C ?
    Thanks kindly.

    example of passing the name of a double to the function in the form of a string array:
    Code:
    validChecker("sampleDoubleNameInStringFormat");
    This is the function. How do I get scanf to recognise the string argument as a real double variable ? At the moment it is not.
    Code:
    int validChecker(char argumentRepresentingADoubleVariable[]) {
          scanf("%lf", &argumentRepresentingADoubleVariable);
     return 0;   
    }

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    you can't do type mismatch like that. you can't read double into a string. If you want to scan into a variable like that you have to pass in as pointer.
    Code:
    void validChecker( double *var)
    {
         scanf("%lf",var); 
    }
    
    ...
    int main()
    {
       double x; 
       validChecker(&x); 
        return 0; 
    }
    Last edited by nimitzhunter; 01-08-2011 at 12:13 AM.
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