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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: #include <is.h>
Message-ID: <9229@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 27 Dec 88 04:31:16 GMT
References: <354@greens.UUCP> <1920@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1920@paris.ics.uci.edu> nagel@blanche.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel) writes:
-... it would be nice to have something like this be part of the
-standard C library so that one could check validity of things like
-atoi, etc.

You can use sscanf() to validate input format.