From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2007-05-02T20:03:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Inverse scanf: finding format specifers of existing fields

On May 2, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Bil Kleb wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have files full of numbers that I need to twiddle,
> but the format of the numbers cannot change[1], e.g.,
>
>  '0.4577' -> '0.7728'
>
> or
>
> '-2.345e-02' -> ' 1.232e-03'

Are there many different formats?

-- fxn