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  1. Path: bright.ecs.soton.ac.uk!postmaster
  2. From: Martin Brown <mqb@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: Character String --> Integer
  5. Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 10:16:21 +0000
  6. Organization: Southampton University
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  14.  
  15. How about sscanf() which reads from a string rather than
  16. a file. So it would be something like:
  17.  
  18. int num;
  19. char read_string[100];
  20.  
  21. if ((sscanf(read_string, "%d", &num)) == 1)
  22.  
  23.   /* do something */
  24.