The function strtod () in C

The double strtod function (const char * str, char ** endptr) in Standard C library converts a string pointed to by parameter str to a floating point number (type double). 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.

Declaring the function strtod () in C

Below is the declaration for strtod () function in C:

 double strtod ( const char * str , char ** endptr ) 

Parameters

str - This is the value to be converted into a string.

endptr - This is a reference to a allocated object of type char *, whose value is set by the function to the next character in str after the numeric value.

Returns the value

This function returns the floating point number that was converted as a double value. If not, the function returns 0.0.

For example

The following program C illustrates the usage of the strtod () function in C:

 #include #include int main () { char str [ 30 ] = "21.32301 Hoc C tai QTM" ; char * ptr ; double ret ; ret = strtod ( str , & ptr ); printf ( "Phan gia tri (double) la: %lfn" , ret ); printf ( "Phan chuoi la: |%s|" , ptr ); return ( 0 ); } 

Compile and run the above C program to see the results.

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