I've been using atoi() to read a field in a text file and store the binary number in an unsigned int field of a struct. From what I can tell, the results are not what I want if the number is within the range of an unsigned int but would be negative as a signed int. Perhaps I need to convert the text number into a long long and then cast it into the struct. Is there a function like atoi() whose output is a long long integer?
Last edited by Alogon; 09-03-2020 at 09:16 PM.
You should use the strtol(), strtoul() or strtod() functions for your string-to-number conversions.
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Same tip as Salem's here... Use strtol() or strtoul() functions. Observe that C99 also offers strtoll() and strtoull() for 'long long int's...Originally Posted by Alogon
Hallo Alogon!
If you use gcc see this page:
atoi(3): convert string to integer - Linux man page
see for this:
int atoi(const char *nptr);
long atol(const char *nptr);
long long atoll(const char *nptr);
long long atoq(const char *nptr);
From man7.org, a more accurate resource for online manpages:
Please compare the atoi() manpage against the strol() magpage, and the example on the latter.errno is not set on error so there is no way to distinguish between 0 as an error and as the converted value. No checks for overflow or underflow are done. Only base-10 input can be converted. It is recommended to instead use the strtol() and strtoul() family of functions in new programs.
