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STRTOUL

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2017-09-15
Index Return to Main Contents
 

NAME

strtoul, strtoull, strtouq - convert a string to an unsigned long integer  

SYNOPSIS

#include <stdlib.h>

unsigned long int strtoul(const char *nptr, char **endptr, int base);

unsigned long long int strtoull(const char *nptr, char **endptr,
                                int base);

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

strtoull():

_ISOC99_SOURCE ||
    || /* Glibc versions <= 2.19: */ _SVID_SOURCE || _BSD_SOURCE
 

DESCRIPTION

The strtoul() function converts the initial part of the string in nptr to an unsigned long int value according to the given base, which must be between 2 and 36 inclusive, or be the special value 0.

The string may begin with an arbitrary amount of white space (as determined by isspace(3)) followed by a single optional aq+aq or aq-aq sign. If base is zero or 16, the string may then include a "0x" prefix, and the number will be read in base 16; otherwise, a zero base is taken as 10 (decimal) unless the next character is aq0aq, in which case it is taken as 8 (octal).

The remainder of the string is converted to an unsigned long int value in the obvious manner, stopping at the first character which is not a valid digit in the given base. (In bases above 10, the letter aqAaq in either uppercase or lowercase represents 10, aqBaq represents 11, and so forth, with aqZaq representing 35.)

If endptr is not NULL, strtoul() stores the address of the first invalid character in *endptr. If there were no digits at all, strtoul() stores the original value of nptr in *endptr (and returns 0). In particular, if *nptr is not aq\0aq but **endptr is aq\0aq on return, the entire string is valid.

The strtoull() function works just like the strtoul() function but returns an unsigned long long int value.  

RETURN VALUE

The strtoul() function returns either the result of the conversion or, if there was a leading minus sign, the negation of the result of the conversion represented as an unsigned value, unless the original (nonnegated) value would overflow; in the latter case, strtoul() returns ULONG_MAX and sets errno to ERANGE. Precisely the same holds for strtoull() (with ULLONG_MAX instead of ULONG_MAX).  

ERRORS

EINVAL
(not in C99) The given base contains an unsupported value.
ERANGE
The resulting value was out of range.

The implementation may also set errno to EINVAL in case no conversion was performed (no digits seen, and 0 returned).  

ATTRIBUTES

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
InterfaceAttributeValue
strtoul(), strtoull(), strtouq() Thread safetyMT-Safe locale
 

CONFORMING TO

strtoul(): POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C89, C99 SVr4.

strtoull(): POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C99.  

NOTES

Since strtoul() can legitimately return 0 or ULONG_MAX (ULLONG_MAX for strtoull()) on both success and failure, the calling program should set errno to 0 before the call, and then determine if an error occurred by checking whether errno has a nonzero value after the call.

In locales other than the "C" locale, other strings may be accepted. (For example, the thousands separator of the current locale may be supported.)

BSD also has

u_quad_t strtouq(const char *nptr, char **endptr, int base);

with completely analogous definition. Depending on the wordsize of the current architecture, this may be equivalent to strtoull() or to strtoul().

Negative values are considered valid input and are silently converted to the equivalent unsigned long int value.  

EXAMPLE

See the example on the strtol(3) manual page; the use of the functions described in this manual page is similar.  

SEE ALSO

a64l(3), atof(3), atoi(3), atol(3), strtod(3), strtol(3)  

COLOPHON

This page is part of release 4.13 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
ATTRIBUTES
CONFORMING TO
NOTES
EXAMPLE
SEE ALSO
COLOPHON





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