Thread: How to extract a hex value from a string?

I need to exact a hex value from within a string and manupulate it the numeric value within a program.

For example:

the string = "C60000F0"
I need to get the numeric value of this, which in this case is 3321889008.

atol nor any of the other standard functions seem to work. Is there some other way in which I can do this?

- Dave
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Try strtoul().

Code:

   char hex[9] = "C60000F0";
   unsigned long num;
   char *endptr;

   num = strtoul(hex,&endptr,16);
   cout << hex << endl;
   cout << num << endl;

Thanks. That worked.

- Dave