Thread: Illegal use of floating point

WAP to convert meters into kilometers and meters.

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
void main ()
{
float ms,kms,tms;
printf("Enter the total number of meters");
scanf("%f",&tms);
kms=tms/1000;
ms=tms%1000;
printf("The total number of kilometers and meters are %f kms %f ms",kms,ms);
getch();
}

Getting an error "Illegal use of floating point" Please help me.

modulus of floating point is not supported in most compilers except when using fmod function.

ms=tms%1000;

Originally Posted by stahta01

modulus of floating point is not supported in most compilers except when using fmod function.

It's not just compilers. The standard specifies that the modulo (%) operator only works for operands of integral type.