>>>>> "Shane" == Shane Wegner <shane@stripped> writes:
Shane> Hi,
Shane> I have a database which is using several signed bigint datatypes but I am
Shane> having trouble getting them into a variable. the mysqlclient fetchrow
Shane> function returns them as chars. For a normal long I could use strtol(3)
Shane> but strtol seems to trunkate long longs. Has anyone written anything to
Shane> convert a bigint type (char *) into a longlong?
The mysql client library should include the function
strtoll(); Some operation systems also has this function natively.
The prototypes are:
longlong strtoll(const char *str, char **ptr, int base);
longlong strtoull(const char *str, char **ptr, int base);
Regards,
Monty
