Getting an int value from stdin

[Zildjian]

Hello,

In the program I'm working on, I need to read in lines from stdin. Lines like this:

Name 1 Name2 3

What I want to do is tokenize the line. However, when I do this, it makes each token a char*, right? How do I make the 1 and 3 in the line into an int? Here is what I'm trying now, but I don't think it's right:

while( fgets(buf,BUFSIZ,stdin) ) {
       team1 = strtok(buf," ");
       score1 = (int)strtok(NULL," ");
       team2 = strtok(NULL," ");
       score2 = (int)strtok(NULL,"\n");

Does the casting for score1 and score2 actually change the char* into an int? Thanks for the help.

[Prelude]

>but I don't think it's right
It's not. Type coercion doesn't change the underlying representation, it just tricks the compiler into accepting something it wouldn't otherwise. To actually change a string to an int, you need to use either atoi or strtol with an int cast:

while( fgets(buf,BUFSIZ,stdin) ) {
       team1 = strtok(buf," ");
       score1 = atoi(strtok(NULL," "));
       team2 = strtok(NULL," ");
       score2 = atoi(strtok(NULL,"\n"));

[Zildjian]

Ah yes, atoi. I completely forgot about that function. Thanks!