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29 .TH STRTOL 3 2010-09-20 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
31 strtol, strtoll, strtoq \- convert a string to a long integer
34 .B #include <stdlib.h>
36 .BI "long int strtol(const char *" nptr ", char **" endptr ", int " base );
38 .BI "long long int strtoll(const char *" nptr ", char **" endptr \
43 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
44 .BR feature_test_macros (7)):
50 XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 600 || _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _ISOC99_SOURCE ||
51 _POSIX_C_SOURCE\ >=\ 200112L;
60 function converts the initial part of the string
61 in \fInptr\fP to a long integer value according to the given \fIbase\fP,
62 which must be between 2 and 36 inclusive, or be the special value 0.
64 The string may begin with an arbitrary amount of white space (as
67 followed by a single optional \(aq+\(aq or \(aq\-\(aq sign.
68 If \fIbase\fP is zero or 16, the string may then include a
69 "0x" prefix, and the number will be read in base 16; otherwise, a
70 zero \fIbase\fP is taken as 10 (decimal) unless the next character
71 is \(aq0\(aq, in which case it is taken as 8 (octal).
73 The remainder of the string is converted to a
76 in the obvious manner, stopping at the first character which is not a
77 valid digit in the given base.
78 (In bases above 10, the letter \(aqA\(aq in
79 either upper or lower case represents 10, \(aqB\(aq represents 11, and so
80 forth, with \(aqZ\(aq representing 35.)
82 If \fIendptr\fP is not NULL,
84 stores the address of the
85 first invalid character in \fI*endptr\fP.
86 If there were no digits at
89 stores the original value of \fInptr\fP in
90 \fI*endptr\fP (and returns 0).
91 In particular, if \fI*nptr\fP is not \(aq\\0\(aq but \fI**endptr\fP
92 is \(aq\\0\(aq on return, the entire string is valid.
96 function works just like the
98 function but returns a long long integer value.
102 function returns the result of the conversion,
103 unless the value would underflow or overflow.
104 If an underflow occurs,
108 If an overflow occurs,
112 In both cases, \fIerrno\fP is set to
114 Precisely the same holds for
130 contains an unsupported value.
133 The resulting value was out of range.
135 The implementation may also set \fIerrno\fP to \fBEINVAL\fP in case
136 no conversion was performed (no digits seen, and 0 returned).
139 conforms to SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99 and POSIX.1-2001, and
141 to C99 and POSIX.1-2001.
145 can legitimately return 0,
154 on both success and failure, the calling program should set
156 to 0 before the call,
157 and then determine if an error occurred by checking whether
159 has a nonzero value after the call.
161 In locales other than the "C" locale, other strings may also be accepted.
162 (For example, the thousands separator of the current locale may be
169 .BI "quad_t strtoq(const char *" nptr ", char **" endptr ", int " base );
173 with completely analogous definition.
174 Depending on the wordsize of the current architecture, this
180 The program shown below demonstrates the use of
182 The first command-line argument specifies a string from which
184 should parse a number.
185 The second (optional) argument specifies the base to be used for
187 (This argument is converted to numeric form using
189 a function that performs no error checking and
190 has a simpler interface than
192 Some examples of the results produced by this program are the following:
196 .RB "$" " ./a.out 123"
197 strtol() returned 123
198 .RB "$" " ./a.out \(aq 123\(aq"
199 strtol() returned 123
200 .RB "$" " ./a.out 123abc"
201 strtol() returned 123
202 Further characters after number: abc
203 .RB "$" " ./a.out 123abc 55"
204 strtol: Invalid argument
205 .RB "$" " ./a.out \(aq\(aq"
207 .RB "$" " ./a.out 4000000000"
208 strtol: Numerical result out of range
220 main(int argc, char *argv[])
227 fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s str [base]\\n", argv[0]);
232 base = (argc > 2) ? atoi(argv[2]) : 10;
234 errno = 0; /* To distinguish success/failure after call */
235 val = strtol(str, &endptr, base);
237 /* Check for various possible errors */
239 if ((errno == ERANGE && (val == LONG_MAX || val == LONG_MIN))
240 || (errno != 0 && val == 0)) {
246 fprintf(stderr, "No digits were found\\n");
250 /* If we got here, strtol() successfully parsed a number */
252 printf("strtol() returned %ld\\n", val);
254 if (*endptr != \(aq\\0\(aq) /* Not necessarily an error... */
255 printf("Further characters after number: %s\\n", endptr);