atoi(3) Library Functions Manual atoi(3)
NAME
atoi, atol, atoll - convert a string to an integer
LIBRARY
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
int atoi(const char *nptr);
long atol(const char *nptr);
long long atoll(const char *nptr);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
atoll():
_ISOC99_SOURCE
|| /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
DESCRIPTION
The atoi() function converts the initial portion of the string pointed
to by nptr to int. The behavior is the same as
strtol(nptr, NULL, 10);
except that atoi() does not detect errors.
The atol() and atoll() functions behave the same as atoi(), except that
they convert the initial portion of the string to their return type of
long or long long.
RETURN VALUE
The converted value or 0 on error.
ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attrib-
utes(7).
┌────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬────────────────┐
│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┤
│ atoi(), atol(), atoll() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe locale │
└────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────┘
VERSIONS
POSIX.1 leaves the return value of atoi() on error unspecified. On
glibc, musl libc, and uClibc, 0 is returned on error.
STANDARDS
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
HISTORY
C99, POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
C89 and POSIX.1-1996 include the functions atoi() and atol() only.
BUGS
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 un-
derflow are done. Only base-10 input can be converted. It is recom-
mended to instead use the strtol() and strtoul() family of functions in
new programs.
SEE ALSO
atof(3), strtod(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3)
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