RE: Strange behavior w/%editc()

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 bmorris@ca.ibm.com wrote:

> James, atoi() is ok for a subset of the char-to-dec problems.
> atoll() handles a few more (up to about 18 digits).  But there's
> no complete solution for values with decimals like '1.23'.
> You can call atof(), but that introduces errors through floating
> point.  You can write your own procedure with a return type that's
> ok for almost everything, say (30,9), but if you have a string
> with 10 decimal places, you have to do some more work.

I see your point.  I actually did write my own atoi() to handle decimal
numbers.  I will be releasing it shortly.

James Rich
james@eaerich.com