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)