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valeriyvan / DMSToDecimal

Last active August 19, 2019 12:35

Geographic coordinate conversion from NSString in DMS format into decimal in CLLocationDegrees (aka double).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_conversion43° 36' 15.894" N => 43.60442

	// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_conversion
	// 43° 36' 15.894" N => 43.60442

	#import "DMSToDecimal.h"

	BOOL DMSToDecimal(NSString* dms, CLLocationDegrees *decimal) {
	CLLocationDegrees degres=0, minutes=0, seconds=0;
	NSScanner *scanner = [NSScanner scannerWithString:dms];
	scanner.charactersToBeSkipped = [NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet];
	if (![scanner scanDouble:&degres]) {