NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

     atol, atoll -- convert ASCII string to long or long long integer

LIBRARY    [Toc]    [Back]

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

     #include <stdlib.h>

     long
     atol(const char *nptr);

     long long
     atoll(const char *nptr);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

     The atol() function converts the initial portion of the string pointed to
     by nptr to long integer representation.

     It is equivalent to:

	   strtol(nptr, (char **)NULL, 10);

     The atoll() function converts the initial portion of the string pointed
     to by nptr to long long integer representation.

     It is equivalent to:

	   strtoll(nptr, (char **)NULL, 10);

ERRORS    [Toc]    [Back]

     The functions atol() and atoll() need not affect the value of errno on an
     error.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

     atof(3), atoi(3), strtod(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3)

STANDARDS    [Toc]    [Back]

     The atol() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (``ISO C89'').  The
     atoll() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (``ISO C99'').


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