STRING to INT

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Original post by Cybertron
Whatever works for you though!

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Original post by Anonymous Poster
Cybertron, didn''t you notice it''s already the 21st century?

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  // untested code

int StripNumber (char * s) {
    for (; !isdigit(*s); s++)
        ;
    return atoi(s);
}  

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Original post by Anonymous Poster
For example, the function you gave will make the program crash if the string doesn''t contain any numbers.

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Original post by Russell For example, is it always going to be contiguous letters followed by a number? If so, you could do something like this

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Original post by Russell
Besides, it depends what you''re doing. You talk about how horrible the security issues are from buffer overflows, and if I''m writing a web server, then maybe I need to think about that, and maybe I should also think about whether I want my web server''s performance to suffer from reallocating memory and copying strings left and right. Since most of us are not writing web servers, this probably isn''t that big of a deal.

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