Thread: Strange behaviour of scanf()

This was most unexpected. I have a big program which was behaving strangely so I decided to test out each section. I wrote a small program as shown below:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
	
printf("go");
float a;
scanf("Enter LTP", &a);
printf("TheLTPis%f", a);
return 0;
}

The program prints:

Code:

go

I then types in 1.344444

The output continues:

Code:

The LTPisnanPress any key to continue...

The output always stays the same.
What is happening there? I've used scanf hundreds of times yet I cant see what is presumably a very simple mistake. Any ideas?