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strtod(3)

NAME

     strtod, strtof, strtold -- convert ASCII string to floating point

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <stdlib.h>

     double
     strtod(const char * restrict nptr, char ** restrict endptr);

     float
     strtof(const char * restrict nptr, char ** restrict endptr);

     long double
     strtold(const char * restrict nptr, char ** restrict endptr);

DESCRIPTION

     These conversion functions convert the initial portion of the string
     pointed to by nptr to double, float, and long double representation,
     respectively.

     The expected form of the string is an optional plus (``+'') or minus sign
     (``-'') followed by either:

     o	 a decimal significand consisting of a sequence of decimal digits
	 optionally containing a decimal-point character, or

     o	 a hexadecimal significand consisting of a ``0X'' or ``0x'' followed
	 by a sequence of hexadecimal digits optionally containing a decimal-
	 point character.

     In both cases, the significand may be optionally followed by an exponent.
     An exponent consists of an ``E'' or ``e'' (for decimal constants) or a
     ``P'' or ``p'' (for hexadecimal constants), followed by an optional plus
     or minus sign, followed by a sequence of decimal digits.  For decimal
     constants, the exponent indicates the power of 10 by which the signifi-
     cand should be scaled.  For hexadecimal constants, the scaling is instead
     done by powers of 2.

     Alternatively, if the portion of the string following the optional plus
     or minus sign begins with ``INFINITY'' or ``NAN'', ignoring case, it is
     interpreted as an infinity or a quiet NaN, respectively.

     In any of the above cases, leading white-space characters in the string
     (as defined by the isspace(3) function) are skipped.  The decimal point
     character is defined in the program's locale (category LC_NUMERIC).

RETURN VALUES

     The strtod(), strtof(), and strtold() functions return the converted
     value, if any.

     If endptr is not NULL, a pointer to the character after the last charac-
     ter used in the conversion is stored in the location referenced by
     endptr.

ERRORS

     [ERANGE]		Overflow or underflow occurred.

SEE ALSO

     atof(3), atoi(3), atol(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3), wcstod(3)

STANDARDS

     The strtod() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (``ISO C99''), with
     the exception of the bug noted below.

BUGS

     These routines do not recognize the C99 ``NaN(...)'' syntax.

AUTHORS

     The author of this software is David M. Gay.

     Copyright (c) 1998 by Lucent Technologies
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