reading integers using fgets

[larne]

How can i read some integer from file using fgets or at least cast them?
I am reading from a file like this

char master[BUFSIZ], slave[BUFSIZ], lin[BUFSIZ], col[BUFSIZ];
int nlin, ncol;

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		fgets(master,sizeof(master),fp);
		// remove newline
		if ((p = strchr(master, '\n')) != NULL) *p = '\0';

		fgets(slave,sizeof(slave),fp);
		// remove newline
		if ((p = strchr(slave, '\n')) != NULL) *p = '\0';
		
		
		fgets(lin,sizeof(lin),fp);
		// remove newline
		if ((p = strchr(lin, '\n')) != NULL) *p = '\0';
		nlin = (int) lin;

		fgets(col,sizeof(col),fp);
		// remove newline
		if ((p = strchr(col, '\n')) != NULL) *p = '\0';
		ncol = (int) col;

The first two fgets works fine and then I need integers in nlin and ncol to pass on, but I dont know how to read them or cast them properly properly, now I get big numbers like 1234000 which is not right. Anybody?

[tabstop]

Use strtol to change a bunch of characters into a (long) int.

[larne]

Perfect, thanks

[matsp]

It looks like you could do with putting these two lines into a function:

		fgets(col,sizeof(col),fp);
		// remove newline
		if ((p = strchr(col, '\n')) != NULL) *p = '\0';
// and possibly also the conversion to integer - but that would probably be better in a separate function.

Any time you find yourself repeating almost identical code more than twice for more than two or three lines, you shoudl ALWAYS ask yourself "is it better to split this out to a separate function".

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Mats