ATOF(3) BSD Library Functions Manual ATOF(3)NAMEatof — convert ASCII string to double
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
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 representation.
It is equivalent to:
strtod(nptr, (char **)NULL);
SEE ALSOatoi(3), atol(3), strtod(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3)STANDARDS
The atof() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (“ANSI C89”).
BSD June 4, 1993 BSD