thanx to both of you. i tried both and it all works fine. live fast, die young!

hi everyone i got a little problem. i'm trying to build a dll which opens a file to read ellipsoid parameters. these parameters are double values. i found out, that i get a run time error when using "sscanf" in a dll. but what is the solution? how can i get doubles from a string in a dll? live fast, die young!