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ATOF(3) Linux Programmer's Manual ATOF(3)
atof - convert a string to a double
#include <stdlib.h> double atof(const char *nptr);
The atof() function converts the initial portion of the string pointed to by nptr to double. The behavior is the same as strtod(nptr, NULL); except that atof() does not detect errors.
The converted value.
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). ┌──────────┬───────────────┬────────────────┐ │Interface │ Attribute │ Value │ ├──────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┤ │atof() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe locale │ └──────────┴───────────────┴────────────────┘
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C89, C99, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
atoi(3), atol(3), strfromd(3), strtod(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3)
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