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Red Hat Documentation: man pages: man3: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)

Manpage of STRTOD

STRTOD

Section: Library functions (3)
Updated: March 4th, 1996
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NAME

strtod - convert ASCII string to double  

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdlib.h>

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

DESCRIPTION

The strtod() function converts the initial portion of the string pointed to by nptr to double representation.

The expected form of the string is optional leading white space as (``-'') followed by a sequence of digits optionally containing a decimal-point character, optionally followed by an exponent. An exponent consists of an ``E'' or ``e'', followed by an optional plus or minus sign, followed by a non-empty sequence of digits. If the locale is not "C" or "POSIX", different formats may be used.  

RETURN VALUES

The strtod function returns the converted value, if any.

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

If no conversion is performed, zero is returned and the value of nptr is stored in the location referenced by endptr.

If the correct value would cause overflow, plus or minus HUGE_VAL is returned (according to the sign of the value), and ERANGE is stored in errno. If the correct value would cause underflow, zero is returned and ERANGE is stored in errno.  

ERRORS

ERANGE
Overflow or underflow occurred.
 

CONFORMING TO

ANSI C  

SEE ALSO


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUES
ERRORS
CONFORMING TO
SEE ALSO

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