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From: dml@rabbit1.UUCP (David Langdon)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.bicycle
Subject: Re: strtol()
Message-ID: <248@rabbit1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Nov-86 11:54:18 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  3 11:54:18 1986
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> Xref: rabbit1 net.unix:1814 net.bicycle:619
> rlk@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Robert L Krawitz): writes
>
> What does this do?  It doesn't seem to exist on my 4.3 system.  I
> suspect it's a SysV library fn, so it seems like I'll have to write it
> myself.  (The reason I'm cross-posting it to net.bicycle is that
> that's where the particlar program came from.)
> 
> Example:
> 
> long strtol();
> 
> getnum()
> {
>     return (int)strtol(lineptr, &lineptr, 10);
> }
> -- 
> Robert^Z

If I'm not mistaken, strtol() is "string-to-long" conversion routine. It
takes an ASCII string and converts it to a long value type

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