well, thank for the info. i actually figured out my way around that.
but in the process, i found some documentation errors! so...
********************* Doc Errors *********************
StrAToI and StrIToA both expect and return Long values, but the docs say
Int.
********************* Doc Errors *********************
:P
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> That function doesn't have any way to signal overflow to the caller. It merely
> multiplies by 10 and adds a new number for each digit it encounters until it
> reaches a non-digit in the character stream.
>
> I guess I can't post the source code to StrAToI, even though you are free to
> download it from our Web site. However, imagine that it looks something like the
> following (taken from the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime library's atoi()
> function; note that this function also overflows):
>
> while (isdigit(c)) {
> total = 10 * total + (c - '0'); /* accumulate digit */
> c = (int)(unsigned char)*nptr++; /* get next char */
> }
>
> -- Keith Rollin
> -- Palm OS Emulator engineer
>
> pete moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/25/99 01:50:59 AM
>
> Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sent by: pete moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc: (Keith Rollin/HQ/3Com)
> Subject: StrAToI() out of bounds
>
> anyone know what StrAToI returns if the Input string is greater than the
> range of an Int? the docs dont say and i am getting weird results.
>
> :P
