CCS/MSP430FR5969: Variable is not created during debug

Tool/software: Code Composer Studio

Hi all,

I'm working on extracting a real number out of a string (an array of characters). I wrote a function to do this, and during debug I realized that a variable of float (to hold the extracted real number) was not created as I expected it to. Can anyone help me to fix it. Thank you!

P/s: the tem variable was also not created until I initialized it with "long tem = 0;"

float realnum_extractor(char array[], unsigned int i){
	unsigned int j, k;
	long tem = 0;
	float real1 = 0;
	for(j = i; array[j] != '.'; j++);						//to get no. of digits to the left of "."
	for(k = i; array[k] != ','; k++);						//to get no. of digits
	k--;													//"." does not count
	for(i; i < j; i++){
		tem += (array[i]-48)*pow(10,k-i-1);
	}
	for(i = j + 1; i <= k; i++){
		tem += (array[i]-48)*pow(10,k-i);
	}
	real1 = (float) tem/pow(10,k-j);
	return real1;
}