bug in atof

[Tobias Burnus]

Hello,

Peter Beutner schrieb:
> It doesn't parse 'd' or 'D' as exponent.
> Seems to be a "MS-only extension" to the standard :p

I would guess this comes from Fortran. Real values are printed with "e",
those with double precision printed with "d". And as one usually uses
double precision in Fortran, one ends up with several data files with
"d" instead of "e" as exponent.


Tobias

PS: I think it is a stupid idea, but as - an excuse - Fortran is quite
old (and even worked with punched cards).