atof problem

This may have been answered beofre, but I just wanted to verify what I did
is ok, or if I should have done it a different way.

I am reading a comma delimited file, and one of the fields is a dollar
amount.  I want to take the dollar amount which is now in a text string of
10 character or so, ie: '123.45'

and I want to convert it to a zoned 17,2 but when I used the atof operation,
I was always get a value 1 penny less that the string that I initially read.


So  I added the (H) to the eval command and it solved the problem..
c                   eval(h)   CheckAmount  = atof(fld8)          


My question is this, is that OK?  Or should I get the dollar amount from the
string a different way?  
Also I did add the H spec to respect decimal position, but that didn't help
the problem...

thanks, for any input....
tim

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