view Python/atof.c @ 71583:cdff35544530 2.7

Minor doc addition for clarity
author Éric Araujo <merwok@netwok.org>
date Fri, 27 May 2011 04:42:47 +0200
parents 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;
}