atoi, atol, atoll - convert a string to an integer
Contents
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 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴────────────────┘
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.
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 longlong.
History
C99, POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
C89 and POSIX.1-1996 include the functions atoi() and atol() only.
Library
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
Name
atoi, atol, atoll - convert a string to an integer
Return Value
The converted value or 0 on error.
See Also
atof(3), strtod(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3) Linux man-pages 6.9.1 2024-05-02 atoi(3)
Standards
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
Synopsis
#include<stdlib.h>intatoi(constchar*nptr);longatol(constchar*nptr);longlongatoll(constchar*nptr); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): atoll(): _ISOC99_SOURCE || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE
Versions
POSIX.1 leaves the return value of atoi() on error unspecified. On glibc, musl libc, and uClibc, 0 is
returned on error.
