NAME

       atoi, atol, atoll - 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);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       atoll():
           _ISOC99_SOURCE ||
               || /* Glibc versions <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION

       The  atoi()  function converts the initial portion of the string pointed to by nptr to int.  The behavior
       is the same as

           strtol(nptr, 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.

RETURN VALUE

       The converted value or 0 on error.

ATTRIBUTES

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

       ┌────────────────────────┬───────────────┬────────────────┐
       │Interface               │ Attribute     │ Value          │
       ├────────────────────────┼───────────────┼────────────────┤
       │atoi(), atol(), atoll() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe locale │
       └────────────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────┘

CONFORMING TO

       POSIX.1-2001,  POSIX.1-2008,  C99,  SVr4,  4.3BSD.  C89 and POSIX.1-1996 include the functions atoi() and
       atol() only.

NOTES

       POSIX.1 leaves the return value of atoi() on error unspecified.  On glibc, musl libc, and  uClibc,  0  is
       returned on error.

BUGS

       errno  is  not  set on error so there is no way to distinguish between 0 as an error and as the converted
       value.  No checks for overflow or underflow are done.  Only  base-10  input  can  be  converted.   It  is
       recommended to instead use the strtol() and strtoul() family of functions in new programs.

SEE ALSO

       atof(3), strtod(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3)

COLOPHON

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