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- From: genew@mindlink.bc.ca (Gene Wirchenko)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: atoi
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 00:44:18 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Message-ID: <4d9jn3$rmd@fountain.mindlink.net>
- References: <4cl55i$5bc@news-e2a.gnn.com> <yewwx75pkns.fsf@hyll.idt.unit.no> <Pine.A32.3.91.960108003513.32363D-100000@black.weeg.uiowa.edu> <4d1knp$135@tnn-wan.trw.com> <821547234snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
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- Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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- >In article <4d1knp$135@tnn-wan.trw.com> mike.west@trw.com "Michael West" writes:
-
- >>Works just fine in our IBM mainframe EBCDIC environment. So I say it should
- >> mean
- >>alpha to integer.
-
- >Since atoi doesn't accept alphabetic characters, it is probably best stated
- >in full as alphanumeric (character sequence) to integer.
-
- Since "+" and "-" aren't alphanumeric characters, it is probably
- best stated in full as "any chars to integer" or possibly "another
- thread of idiocy" <G>.
-
- >--
- >-----------------------------------------
- >Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- >Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
- >-----------------------------------------
-
- Sincerely,
-
- Gene Wirchenko
-
- C Pronunciation Guide:
- y=x++; "wye equals ex plus plus semicolon"
- x=x++; "ex equals ex doublecross semicolon"
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