<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.5, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <title>Numeric Input Conversions (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))</title> <meta name="description" content="Numeric Input Conversions (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))"> <meta name="keywords" content="Numeric Input Conversions (GNU Octave (version 5.1.0))"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> <link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" rel="index" title="Concept Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="C_002dStyle-I_002fO-Functions.html#C_002dStyle-I_002fO-Functions" rel="up" title="C-Style I/O Functions"> <link href="String-Input-Conversions.html#String-Input-Conversions" rel="next" title="String Input Conversions"> <link href="Table-of-Input-Conversions.html#Table-of-Input-Conversions" rel="prev" title="Table of Input Conversions"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} blockquote.smallindentedblock {margin-right: 0em; font-size: smaller} blockquote.smallquotation {font-size: smaller} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalldisplay {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smallexample {margin-left: 3.2em} div.smalllisp {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} pre.smalldisplay {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smallexample {font-size: smaller} pre.smallformat {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} pre.smalllisp {font-size: smaller} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="octave.css"> </head> <body lang="en"> <a name="Numeric-Input-Conversions"></a> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="String-Input-Conversions.html#String-Input-Conversions" accesskey="n" rel="next">String Input Conversions</a>, Previous: <a href="Table-of-Input-Conversions.html#Table-of-Input-Conversions" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Table of Input Conversions</a>, Up: <a href="C_002dStyle-I_002fO-Functions.html#C_002dStyle-I_002fO-Functions" accesskey="u" rel="up">C-Style I/O Functions</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <a name="Numeric-Input-Conversions-1"></a> <h4 class="subsection">14.2.14 Numeric Input Conversions</h4> <p>This section describes the <code>scanf</code> conversions for reading numeric values. </p> <p>The ‘<samp>%d</samp>’ conversion matches an optionally signed integer in decimal radix. </p> <p>The ‘<samp>%i</samp>’ conversion matches an optionally signed integer in any of the formats that the C language defines for specifying an integer constant. </p> <p>For example, any of the strings ‘<samp>10</samp>’, ‘<samp>0xa</samp>’, or ‘<samp>012</samp>’ could be read in as integers under the ‘<samp>%i</samp>’ conversion. Each of these specifies a number with decimal value <code>10</code>. </p> <p>The ‘<samp>%o</samp>’, ‘<samp>%u</samp>’, and ‘<samp>%x</samp>’ conversions match unsigned integers in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal radices, respectively. </p> <p>The ‘<samp>%X</samp>’ conversion is identical to the ‘<samp>%x</samp>’ conversion. They both permit either uppercase or lowercase letters to be used as digits. </p> <p>By default, integers are read as 32-bit quantities. With the ‘<samp>h</samp>’ modifier, 16-bit integers are used, and with the ‘<samp>l</samp>’ modifier, 64-bit integers are used. </p> </body> </html>