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Oops. Catching OverflowError from int() doesn't help, since it raises ValueError on too-large inputs.
author Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
date Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:21:47 +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;
}