How to verify user input is number in C?
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by: jkrPosted on 2007-06-02 at 20:45:44ID: 19202774
The easiest way is to use the 'strtod|l()' functions that the runtime library provides, e.g.
/* STRTOD.C: This program uses strtod to convert a
* string to a double-precision value; strtol to
* convert a string to long integer values; and strtoul
* to convert a string to unsigned long-integer values.
*/
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
void main( void )
{
char *string, *stopstring;
double x;
long l;
int base;
unsigned long ul;
string = "3.1415926This stopped it";
x = strtod( string, &stopstring );
printf( "string = %s\n", string );
printf(" strtod = %f\n", x );
printf(" Stopped scan at: %s\n\n", stopstring );
string = "-10110134932This stopped it";
l = strtol( string, &stopstring, 10 );
printf( "string = %s", string );
printf(" strtol = %ld", l );
printf(" Stopped scan at: %s", stopstring );
string = "10110134932";
printf( "string = %s\n", string );
/* Convert string using base 2, 4, and 8: */
for( base = 2; base <= 8; base *= 2 )
{
/* Convert the string: */
ul = strtoul( string, &stopstring, base );
printf( " strtol = %ld (base %d)\n", ul, base );
printf( " Stopped scan at: %s\n", stopstring );
}
}
When a conversion stops and '*stopstring' is *not* the terminating NULL character, there's something wrong with the input.