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- .\" Copyright (c) 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
- .\" All rights reserved.
- .\"
- .\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
- .\" the American National Standards Committee X3, on Information
- .\" Processing Systems.
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- .\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
- .\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
- .\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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- .\" from: @(#)atof.3 6.4 (Berkeley) 6/29/91
- .\" $Id: atof.3,v 1.1.1.1 1995/10/18 08:42:16 deraadt Exp $
- .\"
- .Dd June 29, 1991
- .Dt ATOF 3
- .Os
- .Sh NAME
- .Nm atof
- .Nd convert
- .Tn ASCII
- string to double
- .Sh SYNOPSIS
- .Fd #include <stdlib.h>
- .Ft double
- .Fn atof "const char *nptr"
- .Sh DESCRIPTION
- The
- .Fn atof
- function converts the initial portion of the string pointed to by
- .Ar nptr
- to
- .Ar double
- representation.
- .Pp
- It is equivalent to:
- .Bd -literal -offset indent
- strtod(nptr, (char **)NULL);
- .Ed
- .Sh SEE ALSO
- .Xr atoi 3 ,
- .Xr atol 3 ,
- .Xr strtod 3 ,
- .Xr strtol 3 ,
- .Xr strtoul 3
- .Sh STANDARDS
- The
- .Fn atof
- function conforms to
- .St -ansiC .
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