ATOL(3) BSD Programmer's Manual ATOL(3)NAMEatol - convert ASCII string to long integer
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 ALSOatof(3), atoi(3), strtod(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3)STANDARDS
The atol() function conforms to ANSI C X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C '').
BSDI BSD/OS June 4, 1993 1