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Top Forums Programming Best way to axe N bytes from the right? Post 302912505 by Don Cragun on Friday 8th of August 2014 03:36:45 PM
Old 08-08-2014
Is this a homework assignment?

There are a lot of inconsistencies in the statements in your last post and you didn't answer most of my questions. Let me try once more:
  1. What is the function prototype for your function?
  2. What do you want your function to return (an integer or a string)? Your example said it should return "78" (which is a string), but you said you could use atoi() which returns an int???
  3. If you want your function to return one value, why are you passing it more than one string?
  4. What errors do you want to detect?
  5. How do you want to report errors? (Special return values, changing errno, diagnostics printed to stderr, ...)
  6. Have you read the man page for atoi()? If you have, why is the ".text" a concern?
 

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ATOI(3) 						     Linux Programmer's Manual							   ATOI(3)

NAME
atoi, atol, atoll, atoq - convert a string to an integer. SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h> int atoi(const char *nptr); long atol(const char *nptr); long long atoll(const char *nptr); long long atoq(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. 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. atoq() is an obsolete name for atoll(). RETURN VALUE
The converted value. CONFORMING TO
SVID 3, POSIX.1, BSD 4.3, ISO/IEC 9899. ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (C89) and POSIX.1 (1996 edition) include the functions atoi() and atol() only; C99 adds the function atoll(). NOTES
The non-standard atoq() function is not present in libc 4.6.27 or glibc 2, but is present in libc5 and libc 4.7 (though only as an inline function in <stdlib.h> until libc 5.4.44). The atoll() function is present in glibc 2 since version 2.0.2, but not in libc4 or libc5. SEE ALSO
atof(3), strtod(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3) GNU
2000-12-17 ATOI(3)
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