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that works. Thanks. I thought atoi would be needed after storing it in the char *.

you might be right as it does not seem too work.

ah...


memcpy(&a,foo,4);

Yes it does, but I am not sure what I am missing.

So using malloc should work? The actuall pinter is malloc'd memory.

int a,b;
char *foo = malloc(sizeof(char) * 100);
int num = 123456;
memcpy(foo,&num,4);

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Hi,

I'm trying to add a int to the first four bytes of a char * and then later on I have to extract the int from the char *.
Example

char *foo = " number";
int num = 123456;...