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NAME

string to double

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The function converts the initial portion of the string pointed to by to 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 function) are skipped.

RETURN VALUES

The function returns the converted value, if any. If is not a pointer to the character after the last character used in the conversion is stored in the location referenced by If no conversion is performed, zero is returned and the value of is stored in the location referenced by If the correct value would cause overflow, plus or minus is returned (according to the sign of the value), and is stored in If the correct value would cause underflow, zero is returned and is stored in

ERRORS

Overflow or underflow occurred.

SEE ALSO

STANDARDS

The function conforms to


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