#include <stdlib.h> #include <limits.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <errno.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int base; char *endptr, *str; long val; if (argc < 2) { fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s str [base]\n", argv[0]); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } str = argv[1]; base = (argc > 2) ? atoi(argv[2]) : 10; errno = 0; /* To distinguish success/failure after call */ val = strtol(str, &endptr, base); /* Check for various possible errors */ if ((errno == ERANGE && (val == LONG_MAX || val == LONG_MIN)) || (errno != 0 && val == 0)) { perror("strtol"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } if (endptr == str) { fprintf(stderr, "No digits were found\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* If we got here, strtol() successfully parsed a number */ printf("strtol() returned %ld\n", val); if (*endptr != '\0') /* Not necessarily an error... */ printf("Further characters after number: %s\n", endptr); exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); }