plan9fox/sys/man/2/atof
cinap_lenrek d457a43461 libc: make atoi() not parse c-style octal and hex numbers
interpreting octal breaks parsing of decimal numbers with
leading zeros. the manpage listed this in the BUGS section,
so we'r going to fix it as this just causes confusion as
most callers of atoi() do not expect it.
2015-08-03 18:10:53 +02:00

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.TH ATOF 2
.SH NAME
atof, atoi, atol, atoll, charstod, strtod, strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull \- convert text to numbers
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <u.h>
.br
.B #include <libc.h>
.PP
.nf
.ta \w'\fLdouble 'u
.B
double atof(char *nptr)
.PP
.B
int atoi(char *nptr)
.PP
.B
long atol(char *nptr)
.PP
.B
vlong atoll(char *nptr)
.PP
.B
double charstod(int (*f)(void *), void *a)
.PP
.B
double strtod(char *nptr, char **rptr)
.PP
.B
long strtol(char *nptr, char **rptr, int base)
.PP
.B
vlong strtoll(char *nptr, char **rptr, int base)
.PP
.B
ulong strtoul(char *nptr, char **rptr, int base)
.PP
.B
uvlong strtoull(char *nptr, char **rptr, int base)
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IR Atof ,
.IR atoi ,
.IR atol ,
and
.I atoll
convert a string pointed to by
.I nptr
to floating, integer, long integer, and long long integer
.RB ( vlong )
representation respectively.
The first unrecognized character ends the string.
Leading C escapes are understood, as in
.I strtol
with
.I base
zero (described below).
.PP
.I Atof
recognizes an optional string of tabs and spaces,
then an optional sign, then
a string of digits optionally containing a decimal
point, then an optional
.L e
or
.L E
followed
by an optionally signed integer.
.PP
.I Atoi
and
.I atol
recognize an optional string of tabs and spaces,
then an optional sign, then a string of
decimal digits.
.PP
.IR Strtod ,
.IR strtol ,
.IR strtoll ,
.IR strtoul ,
and
.I strtoull
behave similarly to
.I atof
and
.I atol
and, if
.I rptr
is not zero, set
.I *rptr
to point to the input character
immediately after the string converted.
.PP
.IR Strtol ,
.IR strtoll ,
.IR strtoul ,
and
.IR strtoull
interpret the digit string in the specified
.IR base ,
from 2 to 36,
each digit being less than the base.
Digits with value over 9 are represented by letters,
a-z or A-Z.
If
.I base
is 0, the input is interpreted as an integral constant in
the style of C (with no suffixed type indicators):
numbers are octal if they begin with
.LR 0 ,
hexadecimal if they begin with
.L 0x
or
.LR 0X ,
otherwise decimal.
.PP
.I Charstod
interprets floating point numbers in the manner of
.IR atof ,
but gets successive characters by calling
.BR (*\fIf\fP)(a) .
The last call to
.I f
terminates the scan, so it must have returned a character that
is not a legal continuation of a number.
Therefore, it may be necessary to back up the input stream one character
after calling
.IR charstod .
.SH SOURCE
.B /sys/src/libc/port
.SH SEE ALSO
.IR fscanf (2)
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
Zero is returned if the beginning of the input string is not
interpretable as a number; even in this case,
.I rptr
will be updated.