Name

atof function — Converts a string to floating point

Synopsis

double atof(const char* str)

The atof function reads a floating-point number from the character array str and returns the value of the floating-point number. The conversion is similar to calling strtod(str, NULL).

See Also

atoi function, atol function, strtod function

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