detecting a floating point number on input in C

This could be useful code in the future. Found in comments on stackoverflow:

// convert input string to double int 

int isfloat (const char *s)
{
     char *ep = NULL;
     double f = strtod (s, &ep);

     if (!ep  ||  *ep)
         return false;  // has non-floating digits after number, if any

     return true;
}

and

 

// distinguish between float and int types 

int isfloat (const char *s)
{
     char *ep = NULL;
     long i = strtol (s, &ep);

     if (!*ep)
         return false;  // it's an int

     if (*ep == 'e'  ||
         *ep == 'E'  ||
         *ep == '.')
         return true;

     return false;  // it not a float, but there's more stuff after it
}