Example: String to double

public static int main (string[] args) {
// Output: ``10.1235``
print ("%g\n", double.parse ("10.12345"));

// Output: ``-0.12345``
print ("%g\n", double.parse ("-0.12345"));

// Output: ``0``
print ("%g\n", double.parse ("d.12345"));

// Output: ``0.12345``
print ("%g\n", double.parse ("0.12345D"));
return 0;
}

 valac --pkg glib-2.0 double.parse.vala

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