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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [02/19] strtonum
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:18:06 +0100
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To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Introduce strtonum(), which works like string_to_number(), but passes
> back the 'end' pointer. It is useful where you want to do boundary
> checking yet work with strings that are not entirely slurped by
> strtoul(), e.g.:
> 
> 	s = "1/2"; /* one half */
> 	if (!strtonum(s, &end, &value, 0, 5))
> 		error("Zero-length string, or value out of bounds");
> 	if (*end != '/')
> 		error("Malformed string");
> 	info->param1 = value;
> 	if (!strtonum(end + 1, &end, &value, 2, 4))
> 		error("..");
> 	if (*end != '\0')
> 		error("Malformed string");
> 	info->param2 = value;
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>

Applied, thanks.