Re: atoi query

ptq2238@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

.... snip ...

strltol seems to work when I enter numbers first then chars but
not the other way around.

Now I'm confused in how I can use strtol on the 2nd example, ie
qwe123 and extract the numeric portion, which was based on my
original intentions of getting a character then a numeric from a
string. Have I misunderstood the strtol function ?

Yes. strtol starts at the beginning. It can't extract a number
from chars, so it fails. It will skip leading blanks only.

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