/* xstrtod.c - error-checking interface to strtod Copyright (C) 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ /* Written by Jim Meyering. */ #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H # include #endif #ifdef STDC_HEADERS # include #else double strtod (); #endif #include #include #include #include "xstrtod.h" /* An interface to strtod that encapsulates all the error checking one should usually perform. Like strtod, but upon successful conversion put the result in *RESULT and return zero. Return non-zero and don't modify *RESULT upon any failure. */ int xstrtod (str, ptr, result) const char *str; const char **ptr; double *result; { double val; char *terminator; int fail; fail = 0; errno = 0; val = strtod (str, &terminator); /* Having a non-zero terminator is an error only when PTR is NULL. */ if (terminator == str || (ptr == NULL && *terminator != '\0')) fail = 1; else { /* Allow underflow (in which case strtod returns zero), but flag overflow as an error. */ if (val != 0.0 && errno == ERANGE) fail = 1; } if (ptr != NULL) *ptr = terminator; *result = val; return fail; }