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From: ayac071@ut-ngp.UUCP (William T. Douglass)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Big numbers in C?
Message-ID: <5739@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Jul-87 19:57:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 28 19:57:37 1987
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In article <8529@brl-adm.ARPA> Alan_Cote.DlosLV-Comm@Xerox.COM writes:
>Robert Lord <robertl@killer.uucp> writes:
>>Also, I am having a little trouble with this statement:
>>strtol(data.number);
>>
>>Where:  data.number[1] == 5
>>        data.number[2] == 7  /*Or whatever...Just examples*/
>>        data.number[3] == \0
>
>If this read a little differently, for example:
>        data.number[1] == '5'
>        data.number[2] == '7'  /*Or whatever...Just examples*/
>        data.number[3] == '\0'
>
>then strtol(data.number) should return a long value (assuming, of


Just wondering, but shouldn't that be indexed from 0, from 1,
in order for strtol to work, so that

         data.number[0] == '5'
         data.number[1] == '7'
         data.number[2] == '\0'

or am I really hopelessly confused?  


Bill Douglass
ayac071@ngp.UUCP

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