----- Original Message -----
From: "Bil Kleb" <William.L.Kleb / NASA.Gov>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 2:09 PM
Subject: scanf failing(?) for floats read from a file


> I'm beginning to use scanf (thanks David, Hal, Noland, and Jason!) to
> read some floats.
>
> However, I am getting some bad data from it when using it to read
> data from a file.

[snip]

> This is for scanf 1.1.1 and ruby 1.7.2 (2002-05-29) and 1.6.8 (2003-03-26)
> on i686-linux.

<sigh> Sorry for the problem, Bil.

I think 1.1.1 is buggy. We discovered it only after
deploying it a two days ago.

Did you try running the test cases that come with
it?

David told me this would happen. :)  He asked if we
could roll back to 1.1.0, and I said it was a lot of
trouble to do that, as I hadn't saved my old files.

I argued that he could just refrain from announcing
it, and the chances of anyone downloading 1.1.1 in
the next day or two were minimal.

So congratulations, Bil! You win a prize for exposing
our carelessness.

No promises on when this can be fixed... but I can
at least dig up the old .tgz file and make it available
also on the site (v 1.0.0). Expect that soon.

Cheers,
Hal