. \" Manual Seite fuer astol . \" @(#)astol.3 1.1 . \" astol() - converts ASCII to long

 astol(string,l)  char *string;  int *l; 

astol() converts the characters pointed to by string to a long stored at l. It returns a pointer to the first character in the string that was not used for the conversion. If the entire string is to be used, it should point to a NULL character ('\\0'). Leading spaces and tabs are skipped.

extern char *astol();
if (*astod(string, &l) != '\\0')
 error("Not a number %s\\n", string);

astod(3), astof(3), astoi(3) Returns a pointer to first unused character. none