It is unsuitable as it has no way of returning and error, e.g.
atoi("adhgsjgdas") = 0Please, please use instead:
if(sscanf(str, "%d", &int_var) != 1) {
// handle the error!!!
}Friday, June 20, 2008
Why atoi() is NOT Your Friend
atoi() is a hold-over of the bad times when people put junk such as strcpy() and gets() into libc.
It is unsuitable as it has no way of returning and error, e.g.
Please, please use instead:
It is unsuitable as it has no way of returning and error, e.g.
Please, please use instead:
