std::stof, std::stod, std::stold

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Member functions basic_string::basic_string basic_string::operator= basic_string::assign basic_string::get_allocator Element access basic_string::at basic_string::operator[] basic_string::front (C++11) basic_string::back (C++11) basic_string::data basic_string::c_str basic_string::operator basic_string_view (C++17) Iterators basic_string::beginbasic_string::cbegin (C++11) basic_string::endbasic_string::cend (C++11) basic_string::rbeginbasic_string::crbegin (C++11) basic_string::rendbasic_string::crend (C++11) Capacity basic_string::empty basic_string::sizebasic_string::length basic_string::max_size basic_string::reserve basic_string::capacity basic_string::shrink_to_fit (C++11)

Operations basic_string::clear basic_string::insert basic_string::erase basic_string::push_back basic_string::pop_back (C++11) basic_string::append basic_string::operator+= basic_string::compare basic_string::starts_with (C++20) basic_string::ends_with (C++20) basic_string::replace basic_string::substr basic_string::copy basic_string::resize basic_string::swap Search basic_string::find basic_string::rfind basic_string::find_first_of basic_string::find_first_not_of basic_string::find_last_of basic_string::find_last_not_of Constants basic_string::npos

Non-member functions operator+ operator==operator!=operator<operator>operator<=operator>= swap(std::basic_string) operator<<operator>> getline stoistolstoll (C++11)(C++11)(C++11) stoulstoull (C++11)(C++11) stofstodstold (C++11)(C++11)(C++11) to_string (C++11) to_wstring (C++11) operator""s (C++14) Helper classes hash<std::string>hash<std::wstring>hash<std::u32string>hash<std::u16string> (C++11)(C++11)(C++11)(C++11) hash<std::pmr::string>hash<std::pmr::wstring>hash<std::pmr::u32string>hash<std::pmr::u16string> (C++20)(C++20)(C++20)(C++20) Deduction guides(C++17)

Defined in header <string>
float stof( const std::string& str, std::size_t* pos = 0 ); float stof( const std::wstring& str, std::size_t* pos = 0 );	(1)	(since C++11)
double stod( const std::string& str, std::size_t* pos = 0 ); double stod( const std::wstring& str, std::size_t* pos = 0 );	(2)	(since C++11)
long double stold( const std::string& str, std::size_t* pos = 0 ); long double stold( const std::wstring& str, std::size_t* pos = 0 );	(3)	(since C++11)

Interprets a floating point value in a string str.

1) calls std::strtod(str.c_str(), &ptr) or std::wcstod(str.c_str(), &ptr)	(until C++17)
1) calls std::strtof(str.c_str(), &ptr) or std::wcstof(str.c_str(), &ptr)	(since C++17)

2) calls std::strtod(str.c_str(), &ptr) or std::wcstod(str.c_str(), &ptr)

3) calls std::strtold(str.c_str(), &ptr) or std::wcstold(str.c_str(), &ptr)

Function discards any whitespace characters (as determined by std::isspace()) until first non-whitespace character is found. Then it takes as many characters as possible to form a valid floating-point representation and converts them to a floating-point value. The valid floating-point value can be one of the following:

• decimal floating-point expression. It consists of the following parts:

• (optional) plus or minus sign
• nonempty sequence of decimal digits optionally containing decimal-point character (as determined by the current C locale) (defines significand)
• (optional) e or E followed with optional minus or plus sign and nonempty sequence of decimal digits (defines exponent)

• binary floating-point expression. It consists of the following parts:

• (optional) plus or minus sign
• 0x or 0X
• nonempty sequence of hexadecimal digits optionally containing a decimal-point character (as determined by the current C locale) (defines significand)
• (optional) p or P followed with optional minus or plus sign and nonempty sequence of decimal digits (defines exponent)

• infinity expression. It consists of the following parts:

• (optional) plus or minus sign
• INF or INFINITY ignoring case

• not-a-number expression. It consists of the following parts:

• (optional) plus or minus sign
• NAN or NAN(char_sequence) ignoring case of the NAN part. char_sequence can only contain digits, Latin letters, and underscores. The result is a quiet NaN floating-point value.

• any other expression that may be accepted by the currently installed C locale

If pos is not a null pointer, then a pointer ptr, internal to the conversion functions, will receive the address of the first unconverted character in str.c_str(), and the index of that character will be calculated and stored in *pos, giving the number of characters that were processed by the conversion.

Parameters

str	-	the string to convert
pos	-	address of an integer to store the number of characters processed

Return value

The string converted to the specified floating point type.

Exceptions

std::invalid_argument if no conversion could be performed

std::out_of_range if the converted value would fall out of the range of the result type or if the underlying function (strtof, (since C++17)strtod or strtold) sets errno to ERANGE.

See also

stoistolstoll (C++11)(C++11)(C++11)	converts a string to a signed integer (function)
stoulstoull (C++11)(C++11)	converts a string to an unsigned integer (function)
from_chars (C++17)	converts a character sequence to an integer or floating-point value (function)