NAME
atof - convert a string to a double
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
I double atof(const char * nptr );
DESCRIPTION
The
R atof ()
function converts the initial portion of the string
pointed to by
nptr to double.
The behavior is the same as
strtod(nptr, (char **) NULL);
except that
R atof ()
does not detect errors.
RETURN VALUE
The converted value.
CONFORMING TO
SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.
SEE ALSO
