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[ANSI C X3.159-1989]

ATOF(3)                   OpenBSD Programmer's Manual                  ATOF(3)

NAME
     atof - convert ASCII string to 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 representation.

     It is equivalent to:

           strtod(nptr, (char **)NULL);

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

STANDARDS
     The atof() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C'').

OpenBSD 2.6                      June 29, 1991                               1

Source: OpenBSD 2.6 man pages. Copyright: Portions are copyrighted by BERKELEY
SOFTWARE DESIGN, INC., The Regents of the University of California, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Free Software Foundation, FreeBSD Inc., and others.

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