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From: wes@arco.com (Wesley Monroe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: str2dec conversion question
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.195856.23222@Arco.COM>
Date: 19 Mar 91 19:58:56 GMT
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I am trying to find documentation on a routine str2dec().  I am calling
the routine from C (MPW C) to change a string to a decimal format
before I call dec2num() to convert it to an extended...

void str2dec(const char *s, short *x, decimal *dec, short *vp)

What I can't figure out is what type of string str2dec wants, a
Pascal string or a C string.  Actually, by trying things out, it
seems that it wants a null terminated C string, but could point
me to some documentation, or enlighten me as to what this thing
really wants???

Cheers,

Wes

P.S. I've looked in the Apple numerics manual, and i see nothing
about str2dec().