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.

ATTRIBUTES¶

Multithreading (see pthreads(7))¶

The atof() function is thread-safe with exceptions. It can be safely used in multithreaded applications, as long as setlocale(3) is not called to change the locale during its execution.

CONFORMING TO¶

SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.

SEE ALSO¶

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

COLOPHON¶

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