Thread: use of atoi.

Messing around with atoi from grabbing a number off of a file. First is there a way to just grab it off the file in the form of an int instead of a string? If so that's easier than my method. If not...with my current program I'm getting an error stating...

"passing arg 1 of 'atoi' from incompatible pointer type"
How can I fix this?

Code:

int main(void)
{
FILE *fp;
char buffer[50];
char *number;
int i;

fp = fopen("file04.txt", "r");
   
   while (fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), fp)!=NULL)
   {
        sscanf(buffer,"%s", &number);
        i = atoi(&number);
   }           
fclose(fp);
}

get rid of it in the sscanf? or the atoi?
because when I get rid of the & in the atoi, the program just crashes with no error.

edit...nvm found what I did wrong. Had a char type as an int. Thanks