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

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std::basic_string
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

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