NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

       atof - convert a string to a double.

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

       #include <stdlib.h>

       double atof(const char *nptr);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

       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    [Toc]    [Back]

       The converted value.

CONFORMING TO    [Toc]    [Back]

       SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

       atoi(3), atol(3), strtod(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3)



GNU				  1993-03-29			       ATOF(3)