Date:	Sun, 3 May 1998 17:55:16 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Oon Lin <Oon DOT Lin AT jcu DOT edu DOT au>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Testing for float or int
In-Reply-To:	<35481B84.167E@jcu.edu.au>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980503175458.19706R-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Oon Lin wrote:

> I had been surfing around Delorie's lib C online reference for a
> function that can test whether an input is in float or int.

One way of doing this is to call the functions `strtod' and `strtol'
on a string that's supposed to be the number and nothing else.  These
functions return a pointer to after the last character of the string
that is still part of a legal number.  So if that pointer points to
the terminating '\0' character, the entire number is in correct
format.

Since every int can be read as a double, but not the other way around,
calling `strtol' alone should supply the desired result.

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