NAME

       atol - convert a string to a long integer.

SYNOPSIS

       #include <stdlib.h>
       long atol(const char *nptr);

DESCRIPTION

       The  atol()  function  converts the initial portion of the
       string pointed to by nptr to long.  The behaviour  is  the
       same as
              strtol(nptr, (char **)NULL, 10);
       except that atol() does not detect errors.

RETURN VALUE

       The converted value.

CONFORMING TO

       SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899

SEE ALSO

       atof(3), atoi(3), strtod(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3)