scan_ulong(3)

NAME
scan_ulong - parse an unsigned long integer in decimal ASCII representation

SYNTAX
#include <libowfat/scan.h>

size_t scan_ulong(const char *src,unsigned long *dest);

DESCRIPTION
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

SEE ALSO
scan_xlong(3), scan_8long(3), fmt_ulong(3)