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diff --git a/doc/c-strtod.texi b/doc/c-strtod.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f4f196f565 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/c-strtod.texi @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +@c Documentation of gnulib module 'c-strtod'. + +@c Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +@c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +@c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +@c any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +@c Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover +@c Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free +@c Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution. + +The @code{c-strtod} module contains a string to number (@samp{double}) +conversion function operating on single-byte character strings, that operates +as if the locale encoding was ASCII. +(The "C" locale on many systems has the locale encoding "ASCII".) + +The function is: +@smallexample +extern double c_strtod (const char *string, char **endp); +@end smallexample + +In particular, only a period @samp{.} is accepted as decimal point, even +when the current locale's notion of decimal point is a comma @samp{,}. |