strtoumax(3)

strtoumax3

String to [u]intmax_t

Part of strtoimax(3).

Usage

#include <inttypes.h>

intmax_t strtoimax(const char *restrict nptr, char **restrict endptr, int base); uintmax_t strtoumax(const char *restrict nptr, char **restrict endptr, int base);

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Overview

These functions are just like strtol(3) and strtoul(3), except that they return a value of type intmax_t and uintmax_t, respectively.

Return value

On success, the converted value is returned. If nothing was found to convert, zero is returned. On overflow or underflow INTMAX_MAX or INTMAX_MIN or UINTMAX_MAX is returned, and errno is set to ERANGE.

Attributes

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

InterfaceAttributeValue
strtoimax(), strtoumax()Thread safetyMT-Safe locale

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 11 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0
  3. 5.0
  4. 6.0
  5. 7
  6. 8
  7. 9
  8. 10
  9. 11
  10. 12
  11. 13
  12. Arch

Standards

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

History

POSIX.1-2001, C99.

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.