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Re: Using %Dec and %Int instead of atoi

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:42:34 +0100
"Johan Vangilbergen" <jvg@xxxxxxx> wrote:


Are there any disadvantages (or benefits) in the use of %Int and %Dec
instead of atoi ?


I discourage the use of atoi in new code because it is a bad API. It
returns 0 when its input is not convertible, so its return value can't
be used to detect an error. If you want to use a C-style function to
convert strings to integers, strtol or strtoul would be better.

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