str_to_long

Description

Convert ASCII decimal string to equivalent 8 bit binary integer value the string must be NUL terminated and only the least significand 32 bits of the result are retained

Definition

long str_to_long(char *ptr)

Library

LIB/str_long_lib.bas

Usage

On entry:

ptr is a pointer to a RAM buffer holding the string to be converted

On exit:

The return value is in the range 0 to 0xffff