Reading floating point numbers

[Allen Holtz]

   I am trying to read floating point numbers from a file using the
following:

    fscanf(pointer,"%f",&arg);

The correct data is not being read.  Instead, totally random numbers are
read in.  Is there a certain way to read floating point numbers from a 
file.  All suggestions are welcome.

Thanks in advance,

Allen

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Allen Holtz                 
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