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author Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
date Thu, 11 Nov 2004 05:42:13 +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;
}