NAME
strtod - convert ASCII string to double
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
double strtod(const char *nptr,
char **endptr);
The strtod function converts the initial portion of the
string
pointed to by nptr to double representation.
The expected form of the string
is an optional plus ("+") or
minus sign ("-") 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 sequence of
digits.
Leading white-space characters
in the string (as defined by the
isspace(3) function) are skipped.
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.
SEE ALSO
atof(3), atoi(3), atol(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3)