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Annotation of coherent/a/usr/man/ALL/atol, revision 1.1.1.1

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                      3: atol()                   General Function                  atol()
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                      8: Convert ASCII strings to long integers
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                     10: lloonngg aattooll(_s_t_r_i_n_g) cchhaarr *_s_t_r_i_n_g;
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                     12: atol converts the argument string to a binary representation of a
                     13: long.  string  may contain a leading sign  (but no trailing sign)
                     14: and any  number of decimal  digits.  atol ignores  leading blanks
                     15: and tabs;  it stops scanning  when it encounters  any non-numeral
                     16: other than the leading sign, and returns the resulting long.
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                     18: ***** Example *****
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                     22: main()
                     23: {
                     24:         extern char *gets();
                     25:         extern long atol();
                     26:         char string[64];
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                     30:         for(;;) {
                     31:                 printf("Enter numeric string: ");
                     32:                 if(gets(string))
                     33:                         printf("%ld\n", atol(string));
                     34:                 else
                     35:                         break;
                     36:         }
                     37: }
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                     40: ***** See Also *****
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                     42: atof(), atoi(), float, long, printf(), scanf()
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                     44: ***** Notes *****
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                     46: No  overflow  checks  are performed.   atol  returns  zero if  it
                     47: receives a string it cannot interpret.
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