Reading fractions in C

Question

How do I read a fraction into C to do math with it? (The fraction will contain the slash symbol) For example, A user will input 3/12. (a string) The program will find the gc

Answer 1

This uses sscanf to get the numbers, you can use scanf directly of course:

#include 
int main() {
  const char *s = " 13/6  \n";
  int a,b;
  sscanf(s, "%d/%d", &a, &b);
  printf("%d frac %d\n", a, b);
  return 0;
}