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ATOI

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
CONFORMING TO
SEE ALSO

NAME

atoi ? convert a string to an integer.

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdlib.h>

int atoi(const char *nptr);

DESCRIPTION

The atoi() function converts the initial portion of the string pointed to by nptr to int. The behaviour is the same as

strtol(nptr, (char **)NULL, 10);

except that atoi() does not detect errors.

RETURN VALUE

The converted value.

CONFORMING TO

SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899

SEE ALSO

atof(3), atol(3), strtod(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3)


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