Atof Help

I'm having trouble with atof!!!
I need a real number to pass to the polar command and when I take the string and pass it to atof the decimal comes back .0 instead of .36.
example:
(setq num "235203.36")
(atof num) ;returns 235203.0

Does anyone know of a way to convert string to real without losing original value of string???

 

The value is there, you just can't see it....

_$ (setq num "235203.36")
"235203.36"
_$ (setq rnum (atof num))
235203.0
_$ (rtos rnum 2 8)
"235203.36000000"
_$

 

Jeff,
I realize that the value may be there, but to pass it to a polar command it needs to be passed as the actual value.

 

What makes you think that it's not using the actual value? Here's a simple
test:

(setq pt1 '(0.0 0.0 0.0))
(setq add (atof "235203.36"))
(setq pt2 (polar pt1 (atan 1) add))
(entmake (list '(0 . "LINE")
(cons 10 pt1)
(cons 11 pt2)
)
)

Running this in the vlide returns:
_$

(0.0 0.0 0.0)
235203.0
(166314.0 166314.0 0.0)
((0 . "LINE") (10 0.0 0.0 0.0) (11 166314.0 166314.0 0.0))
_$

And listing the new line in the drawing editor:
Command: _list
Select objects: 1 found

Select objects:

LINE Layer: "STA-GP"
Space: Model space
Color: BYLAYER Linetype: "PL"
Handle = 323
from point, X= 0.000000 Y= 0.000000 Z= 0.000000
to point, X=166313.890814 Y=166313.890814 Z= 0.000000
Length =235203.360000, Angle in XY Plane = 45d0'0"
Delta X =166313.890814, Delta Y = 166313.890814, Delta Z =
0.000000

The line length is the value of the original string........