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Converting ASCII Numbers To Double-Precision Column Vector
Syntax atod(text)
See Also char2dbl , atoi , ntoa , double

Description
Returns a column vector, with the same row dimension as text, in which each element is the double-precision value for the corresponding row of the character matrix text.

Example
     x = {"3.50", "4.50"}
     2. * atod(x)
 results in
     {
     7
     9
     }
 The atod function ignores white space at the beginning of each row. The number is represented by a sequence of characters from the set "0" through "9", "D", "d", "E", "e", "+", and "-". Any other character signals that the number terminated at the previous character. If there are no valid characters following leading white space, zero is returned.
     atod({" two", "  4", "+4d3", "-4e3", "4i3"})
 results in
     {
     0
     4
     4000
     -4000
     4
     }
 (Note that the character "i" is not in the set of characters defined above.)