ATOF (3)

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

SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899

SEE ALSO

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