string to float conversion?

Question

I\'m wondering what sort of algorithm could be used to take something like \"4.72\" into a float data type, equal to

float x = 4.72;

Answer 1

For C strtod() and C99 friends strtof() and strtold() (description on same link) already have that algorithm implemented.

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