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STRTOD(3) FreeBSD Library Functions Manual 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 significand 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. The syntax "NAN(s)", where s is an alphanumeric string, produces the same value as the call nan("s") (respectively, nanf("s") and nanl("s").)
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 character used in the conversion is stored in the location referenced by the return 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.
SEE ALSO atof(3), atoi(3), atol(3), nan(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3), wcstod(3)
STANDARDS The strtod() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1999 ("ISO C99").
AUTHORS The author of this software is David M. Gay.
Copyright (c) 1998 by Lucent Technologies All Rights Reserved
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that the copyright notice and this permission notice and warranty disclaimer appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of Lucent or any of its entities not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission.
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FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6 May 11, 2010 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6