| @c Documentation of gnulib module 'c-strtold'. |
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| @c Copyright (C) 2008--2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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| @c Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A |
| @c copy of the license is at <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.en.html>. |
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| The @code{c-strtold} module contains a string to number (@samp{long 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".) |
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| The function is: |
| @smallexample |
| extern long double c_strtold (const char *string, char **endp); |
| @end smallexample |
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| 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{,}. |
