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From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: The difference between strtol() and strtoul() ?
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:28:39 +0300
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On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 13:58:01 -0000 (UTC)
gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) wrote:
> 
> Yeah, now I get it.  You really only need strtoimax() and strtoumax().
> 

Which are? uunfortunately, not part of C standard.

> A result of any smaller type can be obtained by calling one of these
> functions and storing the result in an object of the smaller type.
> 

Or check for range and handle out of range values as appropriate by
situation.