Function

GLibascii_strtoull

since: 2.2

Declaration

guint64
g_ascii_strtoull (
  const gchar* nptr,
  gchar** endptr,
  guint base
)

Description

Converts a string to a guint64 value.

This function behaves like the standard strtoull() function does in the C locale. It does this without actually changing the current locale, since that would not be thread-safe.

Note that input with a leading minus sign (-) is accepted, and will return the negation of the parsed number, unless that would overflow a guint64. Critically, this means you cannot assume that a short fixed length input will result in a low return value, as the input could have a leading -.

This function is typically used when reading configuration files or other non-user input that should be locale independent. To handle input from the user you should normally use the locale-sensitive system strtoull() function.

If the correct value would cause overflow, G_MAXUINT64 is returned, and ERANGE is stored in errno. If the base is outside the valid range, zero is returned, and EINVAL is stored in errno. If the string conversion fails, zero is returned, and endptr returns nptr (if endptr is non-NULL).

Available since: 2.2

Parameters

nptr

Type: const gchar*

The string to convert to a numeric value.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
endptr

Type: gchar**

If non-NULL, it returns the character after the last character used in the conversion.

The argument will be set by the function.
The argument can be NULL.
The data is owned by the caller of the function.
The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.
base

Type: guint

To be used for the conversion, 2..36 or 0

Return value

Type: guint64

The converted value, or zero on error.