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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)


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