How to use substr with atof?

Question

Reading from a .txt file, I would like to convert some values from a file, converting a string into doubles. Normally, I can print the desired values:

string line;
ifstream f; 
f.open("set11.txt");
if(f.is_open()) {
 for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
 
 getline(f, line);
 cout << "Voltage " << i << ": " << line.substr(0, 9) << endl;
 }
}
f.close();

Terminal:

Voltage 0: 5.0000000
Voltage 1: 8.0000000
Voltage 2: 1.1000000

However, when I try to make them double, I replace the command with

cout << "Voltage " << i << ": " << atof(line.substr(0, 9)) << endl;

and I get the following error:

 Voltage 0: Error: atof parameter mismatch param[0] C u C:\Users\User\Desktop\Physics\FTE\Root\set11.c(26)
(class G__CINT_ENDL)9129504
*** Interpreter error recovered ***

Any clues here? Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, I'm quite new to C++

• Algirdas Preidžius: line.substr(0, 9).c_str()? As is described in the documentation of std::atof, it accepts const char*, and std::string is not that.
• Some programmer dude: std::stof? Includes better validation and allows better error handling.
• molbdnilo: "set11.c" is a pretty odd name for a C++ source file.
• sweenish: std::stod if doubles are wanted.
• Stamatis Tzanos: @AlgirdasPreidžius Thanks alot!

Answer 1

The problem is that atof() takes a const char* as parameter, while you are passing std::string

Use std::stod instead:

 cout << "Voltage " << i << ": " << stod(line.substr(0, 9)) << endl;

Or convert your std::string to a const char* using the .c_str() function and then pass that as parameter to atof:

 cout << "Voltage " << i << ": " << stod(line.substr(0, 9).c_str()) << endl;

• Asteroids With Wings: If stod could take a string_view this would be easy and great. Alas...