Locale-independent “atof”?

Question

I\'m parsing GPS status entries in fixed NMEA sentences, where fraction part of geographical minutes comes always after period. However, on systems where locale defines comm

Answer 1

This question is old, but in the meantime in C++ we got a "locale-independent" atof:

std::from_chars (with its sibling std::to_chars), added in c++17, provide locale-independent float scanning (and formatting). They are located in header .

You can read more about them here:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/from_chars

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/to_chars

I recomment Stephan T. Lavavej wonderful talk about these two tools, here's the link to the part where he talks about using std::from_chars: https://youtu.be/4P_kbF0EbZM?t=1367

And a short example by me:

#include 
#include 
#include 

int main()
{
    char buffer[16] { "123.45678" };
    float result;
    auto [p, ec] = std::from_chars(std::begin(buffer), std::end(buffer), result);
    if(ec == std::errc{})
        std::cout << result;
}

Unfortunately, as for today (05.06.2020) only MSVC supports these functions with floating types. Implementing them efficiently turned out to be a big problem.