- /* It's a float since it contains a point or an exponent. */
- char c;
- int num = 0; /* number of tokens scanned by scanf */
- char saved_char = p[len];
-
- p[len] = 0; /* null-terminate the token */
- num = sscanf (p, "%" DOUBLEST_SCAN_FORMAT "%c",
- &putithere->typed_val_float.dval, &c);
- p[len] = saved_char; /* restore the input stream */
- if (num != 1) /* check scanf found ONLY a float ... */
+ const char *suffix;
+ int suffix_len;
+
+ if (! parse_float (p, len, &putithere->typed_val_float.dval, &suffix))