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Annotation of coherent/a/usr/man/ALL/atof, revision 1.1

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        !             3: atof()                   General Function                  atof()
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        !             8: Convert ASCII strings to floating point
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        !            10: ddoouubbllee aattooff(_s_t_r_i_n_g) cchhaarr * _s_t_r_i_n_g;
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        !            12: atof converts string  into the binary representation of a double-
        !            13: precision  floating  point  number.   string  must be  the  ASCII
        !            14: representation  of a  floating-point  number.  It  can contain  a
        !            15: leading sign, any number  of decimal digits, and a decimal point.
        !            16: It can be terminated with an exponent, which consists of the let-
        !            17: ter `e' or `E' followed by  an optional leading sign and any num-
        !            18: ber of decimal digits.  For example,
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        !            21:         123e-2
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        !            24: is a string that can be converted by atof.
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        !            26: atof ignores  leading blanks and tabs; it  stops scanning when it
        !            27: encounters any unrecognized character.
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        !            29: ***** Example *****
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        !            31: For an example of this function, see the entry for acos.
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        !            33: ***** See Also *****
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        !            35: atoi(), atol(), float, general functions, long, printf(), scanf()
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        !            37: ***** Notes *****
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        !            39: atof does  not check  to see if  the value represented  by string
        !            40: fits into a ddoouubbllee.  It returns zero if you hand it a string that
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