ATOL(3P)

💖 ATOL(3P) — the POSIX Programmer's Manual, but make it a group chat 💖

okay bestie, before we even start: this page lives inside the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux version of this whole interface? It can be different — like, go check the matching Linux manual page for the actual Linux tea 🫖 — or the interface might not even exist on Linux at all. Not every baddie is available everywhere, and that's on that.

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🌸 PROLOG 🌸

This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

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✨ NAME ✨

atol, atoll — convert a string to a long integer 🧚

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💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

#include <stdlib.h>

long atol(const char *nptr);
long long atoll(const char *nptr);

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1‐2017 defers to the ISO C standard. like, the ISO C girlies are the final say here, no cap.

Except as noted below, the call atol(nptr) shall be equivalent to:

strtol(nptr, (char **)NULL, 10)

Except as noted below, the call to atoll(nptr) shall be equivalent to:

strtoll(nptr, (char **)NULL, 10)

The handling of errors may differ. And if the value cannot be represented? the behavior is undefined 💀 that's the scary part bestie, it's giving "we simply do not know what happens" energy.

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🫶 RETURN VALUE 🫶

These functions shall return the converted value if the value can be represented. that's it, that's the whole vibe. ✨

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🙈 ERRORS 🙈

No errors are defined.

The following sections are informative. (translation: the main character part is over, what's next is bonus lore 🌈)

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🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

None. literally none, we're serving an empty plate and honestly? iconic. 🎀

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💜 APPLICATION USAGE 💜

If the number is not known to be in range, strtol() or strtoll() should be used because atol() and atoll() are not required to perform any error checking.

fr fr bestie: atol() and atoll() are the chill, zero-anxiety cousins who do no error checking whatsoever. if you don't already know your number is in range, go talk to strtol() or strtoll() instead. 🚨

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🌈 RATIONALE 🌈

None.

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⭐ FUTURE DIRECTIONS ⭐

None.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• strtol()
• The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, <stdlib.h>

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📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 💅✨ this one was brought to you by IEEE/The Open Group, 2017, and the page is literally called ATOL(3P) — go off, atol, you absolute legend. mwah 🎀🦋💖