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How to create floats from const char* in C?

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Trivial question, please help.

I need to convert a string literal like "111.25" to floating point number.
atof() fails me as it returns 1111 and discards .25?

posted Jul 28, 2015 by anonymous

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+2 votes

You must have forgotten to include the header file "stdlib.h" or maybe you used ""atoi"" by mistake instead of ""atof""

The below code works fine for me --

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
main()
{
char *str="111.25";
float x;

x=atof(str);
printf("x=%f\n",x);
}

Output :

x=111.250000
answer Jul 29, 2015 by Ankush Surelia
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Expected output is equal but we does not get same why?

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