atof (3)

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

       SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899

SEE ALSO

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

GNU                               1993-03-29                           atof(3)