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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 3.53 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/.

GNU                               2012-08-03                           ATOF(3)