ATOL
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: March 29, 1993
NAME
atol - convert a string to a long integer.
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
long atol(const char *nptr);
DESCRIPTION
The atol() function converts the initial portion of the string
pointed to by nptr to long. The behaviour is the same as
-
strtol(nptr, (char **)NULL, 10);
except that atol() does not detect errors.
RETURN VALUE
The converted value.
CONFORMING TO
SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899
SEE ALSO
atof(3), atoi(3), strtod(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3)