atof

NAME

atof - convert a string to a double

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)