Guides:C/C Crash Course/Converting text to and from numbers
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Converting text to numbers
Every now and then, we may want to convert a text string to a number. C has a few very useful functions for doing this. They are pretty straight forward, and, you should know enough about C now to know how to use the from their function prototypes:
int atoi(char *)long atol(char *)long long atoll(char *)for C99 compliant compilers.double atof(char *)
There are other ways, but these are the easiest, and most useful functions to use. the strtol(), strtod(), strtoll(), strtold(), strtof() and other like-named functions, allow for more options. They take the form of:
float strtof(const char *nptr, char **endptr); long int strtol(const char *nptr, char **endptr, int base);
Some of these functions are described by the ANSI C standard, others, including stroll() and atoll() are defined by the ISO C99 and POSIX.1 (1996) standards. In order to use these functions, you need to also include the stdlib.h header file.
