How do you convert a String to a float or int?

Question

In an Arduino program I\'m working on the GPS sends the coordinates to the arduino through USB. Because of this, the incoming coordinates are stored as Strings. Is there any way

Answer 1

You can get an int from a String by just calling toInt on the String object (e.g. curLongitude.toInt()).

If you want a float, you can use atof in conjunction with the toCharArray method:

char floatbuf[32]; // make this at least big enough for the whole string
curLongitude.toCharArray(floatbuf, sizeof(floatbuf));
float f = atof(floatbuf);