
                                     G. M. HOOVER
                                     COMPUSERVE I.D. - 71230,537




            ......NUMBER.TXT REVISITED.....


     2NUMBR.TXT (A MORE "precision based" RESOLUTION)




     THE FOLLOWING CODE WAS PROVIDED ME BY A GENTLEMAN NAMED JOHN M. BILYJ,

ALSO OF COMPUSERVE WHO POINTED OUT SEVERAL ASPECTS OF "NUMBER.TXT" WHICH WERE

NOT UP TO PAR, ON SEVERAL ASPECTS OF THEIR USAGE.  



     THE MAJOR ASPECT OF "xnge" HAS TO DO WITH MODIFYING THE "getfloat"

FUNCTION WITH "double".  ALTHOUGH I'D READ THAT DOUBLE WAS MORE ACCURATE

THAN THE FLOAT FUNCTION, THE FOLLOWING "coding" VALIDATES THIS SUPPOSITION.


     WHEN INPUTTING 123456789.00 WITH "NUMBER.TXT CODING", IT RETURNS SOMETHING 

LIKE "123456792.00".  THE FOLLOWING CODE ASSISTS WITH ALLEVIATING THAT, 

INCORPORATES "backspacing" TO RESOLVE AN ERROR, AND ALSO DISCONTINUES INPUT 

TO GO PAST THE END OF THE ARRAY.


BEST REGARDS,

                    GARY