This is excerpted from K&R pages. 42-43
The explanation reads that this function coverts a string of digits into its numeric equivalent.
Do they explicitly mean numbers by saying digits? If so, what does it's numeric equivalent mean if digits are already numbers?
Code:
int atoi(char s[])
{
int i, n;
n = 0;
for (i = 0; s[i] >= '0' && s[i] <= '9'; ++i)
n = 10 * n + (s[i] - '0');
return n;
}
I'm having problems understanding what is happening here:
It says that this gives the numeric value of the character stored in s[i], because the values of '0', '1', etc, form a contiguous increasing sequence.
I really don't understand that construct or what this is saying.
Help would be greatly appreciated.