A question about decoding strings in Asyn....

[Dave Reid <dreid@u.washington.edu>]

I'm using an Asyn record to get a readback from a Kepco power supply via 
GPIB.  The return string comes back as an exponential, i.e. "1.5439E01". 
 Is there a slick way for taking this string and decoding it into a 
float?  Will the SSCANF facility in the SCALC record do this?

Thanks...

Dave Reid
University of Washington Medical Center