Thread: Big number question

Hi all, just wondering if someone can tell me what i might be doing wrong here ...

I'm trying to read in numbers from a text file into variables and display them back on the screen. However after i read them and output them, they are not the same. Here is what the input would looklike

Code:

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X 362741.5      5606219.4          896.6 
X 362731.9      5606201.4          896.2 
X 362722.8      5606184.1          895.8

and here is the output

Code:

362742        5.60622e+006       896.6
362732        5.6062e+006        896.2
362723        5.60618e+006       895.8

so only the last set of numbers stays the same ?

here is some of the code im using ...

Code:

	...

	char byte;
	double xcoord;
	double ycoord;
	double elevation;

	for(;;)
	{
		inFile.read(&byte, 1);

		if(inFile.eof() == true)
		{
			break;
		}
		if(byte == '*')
		{
			skipLine(inFile);
		}
		else if(byte == 'X')
		{
			inFile >> xcoord;
			inFile >> ycoord;
			inFile >> elevation;
		}
	}

	...

any help would be great

If you use <iomanip> to set the correct notation they should come out the way they were input. The inaccuracy of floating point numbers shouldn't stop you from being able to output these numbers the way they looked originally.