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- From: mike.west@trw.com (Michael West)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: atoi
- Date: 11 Jan 1996 00:13:45 GMT
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- In article <Pine.A32.3.91.960108003513.32363D-100000@black.weeg.uiowa.edu>,
- The Amorphous Mass <robinson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote:
- >On 6 Jan 1996, Amund Tveit wrote:
- >
- >> [Kevin Kalstein]
- >>
- >> | so, exactly what does this do? and what does it stand for?
- >> | is it ascii to integer? or array to integer?
- >>
- >> it stands for ascii to integer and in practice it converts integers
- >> presented as ascii-strings to integer.
- >
- > And PHBBBT to all those people using EBCDIC strings, right? :)
- >
- Works just fine in our IBM mainframe EBCDIC environment. So I say it should mean
- alpha to integer.
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