Simple use of sprintf - C

Question

I\'m trying to work out why a larger problem is occurring, using a smaller program as an example. This smaller program does not work, leading me to believe it is my understa

Answer 1

I see two problems:

1. As others already said, you have to specify a double instead of an int. Your compiler may have a switch to print out warnings in these cases (-Wall in gcc, for example).

2. To print out 5.00..., you should use %f instead of %g.

That gives sprintf(word,"%.9f", (double) 5); as correct syntax.