Convert the string to a floating point number. This number may be in decimal or exponential form. All characters up to the first illegal character for a floting point number are converted.

This function uses the standard C library strtod()# function.

Returns:

floating point value for the string.

Definition at line 2286 of file contain.cxx.

Referenced by PConfig::GetReal().

{
#ifndef __HAS_NO_FLOAT
  char * dummy;
  return strtod(theArray, &dummy);
#else
  return 0.0;
#endif
}