.\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
.\" %sccs.include.redist.man%
.\" @(#)atol.3 5.1 (Berkeley) %G%
atol \- convert ASCII string to long integer
function converts the initial portion of the string pointed to by
strtol(nptr, (char **)NULL, 10);
atof(3), atoi(3), strtod(3), strtol(3), strtoul(3)
conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C'').