C Reference function strtod()

This function of stdlib will convert a string to a double.

Usage of strtod():

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

Parameters:

C string str interpreting its content as a floating point number.
If endptr is not a null pointer, the function also sets the value pointed by endptr to point to the first character after the number. White-spaces are discarded until the first non-whitespace character is found.
A valid floating point number for atof is formed by: plus or minus sign, sequence of digits, decimal point and
optional exponent part (character ‘e’ or ‘E’)

Return value:

The function returns the converted floating point number as a double value, if successful.
If no valid conversion could be performed then an zero value is returned.

Source code example of strtod():

	#include<stdio.h>
	#include<stdlib.h>

	int main ()
	{
		char input[] = "10.0 5.0";
		char * ptr_end;
		double a, b;

		a = strtod (input,&ptr_end);
		b = strtod (ptr_end,NULL);

		printf ("Output= %.2lf\n", a/b);

		return 0;
	}

Output of the strtod example program above:

	Output= 2.0