Parsing integers in C. Aka "bye bye atoi".
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Parsing integers in C
In the standard libc API set there are multiple functions provided that do ASCII numbers to integer conversions. They are handy and easy to use, but also error-prone and quite lenient in what they accept and silently just swallow.daniel.haxx.se
Fredrik Björeman
in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •@siracusa The thought “You two should be in a podcast episode together” popped into my head and I had to write this to get it out. I know it’d be interesting talk, and I have no idea which directions it would go in.
Just leaving that thought here, kthxbye
Patrick Morris Miller
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