scan_ulong3
Parse an unsigned long integer in decimal ascii representation
Usage
#include <libowfat/scan.h>
size_t scan_ulong(const char *src,unsigned long *dest);
Overview
scan_ulong parses an unsigned long integer in decimal ASCII representation from src and writes the result into dest. It returns the number of bytes read from src.
Leading + or - or space (or anything outside of 0-9) is not accepted. The libc conventions of "023" for octal or "0x23" for hexadecimal are not supported.
scan_ulong will abort the scan if the next character is not a digit, or if it is a digit but adding it to the number would lead to an integer overflow.
Return value
scan_ulong returns the number of characters successfully scanned and processed from src.
Examples
scan_ulong("23",&i) -> i=23, return 2
scan_ulong("+23",&i) -> return 0
scan_ulong("-23",&i) -> return 0
scan_ulong(" 23",&i) -> return 0
scan_ulong("23,42",&i) -> i=23, return 2
scan_ulong("023",&i) -> i=23, return 3
scan_ulong("0x23",&i) -> i=0, return 1
scan_ulong("4294967296",&i") -> i=429496729, return 9 // 32-bit system
Releases
8 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 3 times.