strtol c string function

Question

I'm using input via redirection. I'm trying to store numbers from a string to an integer.

The first number is 1989... however only '1' gets stored. Am I using strtol wrong?

table is an array of structs

value is an array of integers.

//(*row, i, j) = 0

while((c = fgetc(stdin)) != EOF)
{
    if (c != ' ' && c != '\n')
    {
        str[i] = c;
        i++;
    }

    else if (c == ' ')
    {
        str[i] = '\0';
        i = 0;
        table[*row].value[j] = strtol(str, NULL, strlen(str));

This code works and it does go into the else if after it reads in 1989... but for some reason strtol is only storing '1' instead of storing '1989'.

please have a look on [strtol](http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdlib/strtol/) syntax. — Dayal rai, Sep 20 '13 at 06:49

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 20 '13 at 06:48

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Yes you are using it wrong. The last argument is the base of the number to parse. For normal decimal numbers that should be 10. See e.g. this reference.

answered Sep 20 '13 at 06:48

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