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Explain what file descriptors are; this change has been sitting in my tree for a while
author Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
date Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:50:17 +0000
parents 2dea40e40d9d
children fd25030223b0
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/* Just in case you haven't got an atof() around...
   This one doesn't check for bad syntax or overflow,
   and is slow and inaccurate.
   But it's good enough for the occasional string literal... */

#include "pyconfig.h"

#include <ctype.h>

double atof(char *s)
{
	double a = 0.0;
	int e = 0;
	int c;
	while ((c = *s++) != '\0' && isdigit(c)) {
		a = a*10.0 + (c - '0');
	}
	if (c == '.') {
		while ((c = *s++) != '\0' && isdigit(c)) {
			a = a*10.0 + (c - '0');
			e = e-1;
		}
	}
	if (c == 'e' || c == 'E') {
		int sign = 1;
		int i = 0;
		c = *s++;
		if (c == '+')
			c = *s++;
		else if (c == '-') {
			c = *s++;
			sign = -1;
		}
		while (isdigit(c)) {
			i = i*10 + (c - '0');
			c = *s++;
		}
		e += i*sign;
	}
	while (e > 0) {
		a *= 10.0;
		e--;
	}
	while (e < 0) {
		a *= 0.1;
		e++;
	}
	return a;
}