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.\" $OpenBSD: strtonum.3,v 1.8 2004/11/22 00:58:39 jmc Exp $ |
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.\" $OpenBSD: strtonum.3,v 1.9 2005/02/07 08:54:59 jmc Exp $ |
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.\" |
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.\" Copyright (c) 2004 Ted Unangst |
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.\" |
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.Ar maxval . |
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.El |
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.Pp |
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If an error occurs, errstr will be set to one of the following strings. |
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.Bl -tag -width "too large" |
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.It "too large" |
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If an error occurs, |
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.Fa errstr |
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will be set to one of the following strings: |
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.Pp |
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.Bl -tag -width "too largeXX" -compact |
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.It too large |
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The result was larger than the provided maximum value. |
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.It "too small" |
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.It too small |
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The result was smaller than the provided minimum value. |
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.It "invalid" |
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.It invalid |
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The string did not consist solely of digit characters. |
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.El |
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.Sh SEE ALSO |
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The existing alternatives, such as |
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.Xr atoi 3 |
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.Xr strtol 3 |
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.Xr strtol 3 , |
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are either impossible or difficult to use safely. |
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.Sh HISTORY |
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The |
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