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NAMEatof - convert a string to a double
#include <stdlib.h> double atof(const char *nptr);
DESCRIPTIONThe atof() function converts the initial portion of the string pointed to by nptr to double. The behavior is the same as
strtod(nptr, (char **) NULL);
RETURN VALUEThe converted value.
CONFORMING TOSVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.
SEE ALSOatoi(3), atol(3), strtod(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3)
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