To scan a and b given below which scanf() statement would we use? why wat is da reason

Question

float a;
double b;

A. scanf("%f%f", &a, &b);
B. scanf("%Lf%Lf", &a, &b);
C. scanf("%f%Lf", &a, &b);
D. scanf("%f%lf", &a, &b);

Answer 1

Look up the format string specification for scanf().

Answer 2

You can use

scanf("%f %lf", &a, &b);

scanf type specifiers:

• c: Single character: Reads the next character. If a width different from 1 is specified, the function reads width characters and stores them in the successive locations of the array passed as argument. No null character is appended at the end.
• d: Decimal integer: Number optionally preceded with a + or - sign.
• e,E,f,g,G: Floating point: Decimal number containing a decimal point, optionally preceded by a + or - sign and optionally folowed by the e or E character and a decimal number. Two examples of valid entries are -732.103 and 7.12e4
• o: Octal integer.
• s: String of characters: This will read subsequent characters until a whitespace is found (whitespace characters are considered to be blank, newline and tab).
• u: Unsigned decimal integer.
• x,X: Hexadecimal integer.

Modifiers:

• h : short int (for d, i and n), or unsigned short int (for o, u and x)
• l : long int (for d, i and n), or unsigned long int (for o, u and x), or double (for e, f and g)
• L : long double (for e, f and g)

Source: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdio/scanf/