From: "Pavlos" <trash24379 AT usa DOT net>
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Subject: Re: HOW I CAN CONVERT STRING TO INT
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 03:10:31 +0300
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I'm not sure that this is what you want but try   atoi() and atol()