From 7ac22c149117b3abeb7be75af7801ef4d9f21ffa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sandeep Mistry <s.mistry@arduino.cc>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:09:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] WString: add `toDouble`

Port of https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/pull/5362
---
 cores/arduino/WString.cpp | 9 +++++++--
 cores/arduino/WString.h   | 1 +
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cores/arduino/WString.cpp b/cores/arduino/WString.cpp
index 73a96f9f..ff0bd8da 100644
--- a/cores/arduino/WString.cpp
+++ b/cores/arduino/WString.cpp
@@ -810,6 +810,11 @@ long String::toInt(void) const
 
 float String::toFloat(void) const
 {
-        if (buffer) return float(atof(buffer));
-        return 0;
+	return (float)toDouble();
+}
+
+double String::toDouble(void) const
+{
+	if (buffer) return atof(buffer);
+	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/cores/arduino/WString.h b/cores/arduino/WString.h
index 75a3e143..2ff259f8 100644
--- a/cores/arduino/WString.h
+++ b/cores/arduino/WString.h
@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ class String
 	// parsing/conversion
 	long toInt(void) const;
 	float toFloat(void) const;
+	double toDouble(void) const;
 	char * getCSpec(int base, bool issigned, bool islong);
 
 protected: