netbsd man page for atol

ATOL(3) 						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						   ATOL(3)

NAME
     atol -- convert ASCII string to long integer

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <stdlib.h>

     long
     atol(const char *nptr);

DESCRIPTION
     The atol() function converts the initial portion of the string pointed to by nptr to long integer representation.

     It is equivalent to:

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

SEE ALSO
     atof(3), atoi(3), strtod(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3)

STANDARDS
     The atol() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C89'').

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								   June 4, 1993 							       BSD