scan from string / minus

[Mc]

hi all
i try to scan a string which contains strings as: "20-20". So i've tried many options %f... but each time LabView returns "20"... How doing this ??
Thanx for answers

Matt

[shoneill]

This is the correct answer. %f interprets only numbers and either "," or "." depending on what your system uses as a decimal seperator.

If you want both numbers, you need to use a format specifier of %f-%f which tells the function to get two numbers seperated by a "-". This will return two values representing the numbers either side of the "-".

Alternatively, if the "-" is supposed to be a decimal point (The number should be 20.20) you can specify that the "-" should be used as a decimal seperator by using the format command "%-;%f".

Hope this helps.

Shane.