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Manual Reference Pages  - ATOF (3)

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NAME

atof - convert a string to a double

CONTENTS

Synopsis
Description

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdlib.h> 



double atof(const char *nptr); 

DESCRIPTION

The atof() function converts the initial portion of the string pointed to by nptr to double. The behaviour is the same as

strtod(nptr, (char **)NULL);

except that atof() does not detect errors.

RETURN VALUE

The converted value.

CONFORMING TO

SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.

SEE ALSO

atoi(3), atol(3), strtod(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3)

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GNU

ATOF (3)

1993-03-29

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