debian man page for atof

ATOF(3) 						     Linux Programmer's Manual							   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 behavior is the same as

	   strtod(nptr, 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)

COLOPHON
       This  page is part of release 3.44 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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								    2012-08-03								   ATOF(3)