Exercise 4.2 - Extend atof to handle scientific notation#
Question#
Extend atof to handle scientific notation of the form 123.45e-6 where a floating-point number may be followed by e or E and an optionally signed exponent.
/* Program demonstrating atof(char s[]).The function which converts the string to a floating
point value */
#include<stdio.h>
#include<ctype.h>
#define MAXLINE 100
double myatof(char s[]);
int mgetline(char line[],int maxline);
int main(void)
{
char str[MAXLINE];
double num;
mgetline(str,MAXLINE);
num=myatof(str);
printf("%f",num);
return 0;
}
double myatof(char s[])
{
double val,pow;
int sign,i,esign,exp;
int power(int base,int exp);
for(i=0;isspace(s[i]);i++)
;
sign=(s[i]=='-')?-1:1;
if(s[i]=='+' || s[i] == '-')
i++;
for(val=0.0;isdigit(s[i]);i++)
val = 10.0 * val + (s[i] - '0');
if(s[i]=='.')
i++;
for(pow=1.0;isdigit(s[i]);i++)
{
val = 10.0 * val + (s[i] - '0');
pow *= 10.0;
}
if(s[i]=='e' || s[i] =='E')
i++;
if(s[i]=='+' || s[i] =='-')
{
esign=s[i];
i++;
}
for(exp=0;isdigit(s[i]);i++)
exp=10.0 * exp + (s[i] - '0');
if( esign == '-')
return sign * (val / pow) / power(10,exp);
else
return sign * (val / pow) * power(10,exp);
}
int mgetline(char s[],int lim)
{
int i,c;
for(i=0;i<lim-1 && (c=getchar())!=EOF && c!='\n';++i)
s[i] = c;
if(c=='\n')
s[i++]=c;
s[i]='\0';
}
int power(int base,int exp)
{
int power;
power=1;
while(exp-- > 0)
power *=base;
return power;
}
Explanation#
For the input:
1.0e10
We might get the output:
1410065408.000000