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- Atol(33.4) ARP Programmers Manual Atol(33.4)
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- NAME
- Atol -- Convert ascii string to long int.
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- SYNOPSIS
- intval = Atol("string")
- d0 a0
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- FUNCTION
- Convert "string" to a long integer. This function will skip
- leading whitespace. This function returns an error if a
- non-whitespace non-digit is encountered during processing.
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- INPUTS
- string -- pointer ascii string, which may be null terminated
- or whitespace terminated. The digits may have
- leading whitespace.
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- RESULT
- intval -- the binary value of the string, else the offending
- character if an error. You can tell if this
- function returned an error from assembly langauage
- by checking the Z flag, it will be SET if there is
- an error. The C binding routine will place the error
- value ERRBADINT in the global long Errno if there is
- an error. Errno is not cleared on a succesful
- return.
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- BUGS
- None known
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- SEE ALSO
- LMult()
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- AUTHOR
- SDB
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- Page 1 (printed 2/22/88)
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