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Subject: Re: Extract a value from a string?
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Edmund Horner <ejrh AT paradise DOT net DOT nz> wrote in message
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> char *str;   // this is the string.
> int n;
> n = atoi (str);   // method 1.
> sscans (str, "%d", &n);   // method 2.

couple of minor points:
using strtol() instead of atoi allow you to test if the string
was actually a valid number, as well as allowing a base
to be specified.

checking the return from sscanf() will verify that a numeric
string was actually found, converted, and placed in 'n'

otherwise, atoi will happily return 0 on a bogus string and
sscanf() will leave n as garbage.