view Python/atof.c @ 65997:3207d9f4d00a 2.7

Document key-functions in the glossary.
author Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
date Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:06:14 +0000
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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;
}