atof
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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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