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Tcl_GetInt (3tcl)

Name

Tcl_GetInt - convert from string to integer, double, or boolean

Synopsis

#include <tcl.h>

int
Tcl_GetInt(interp, src, intPtr)

int
Tcl_GetDouble(interp, src, doublePtr)

int
Tcl_GetBoolean(interp, src, boolPtr)

Description

Tcl_GetInt(3tcl)            Tcl Library Procedures            Tcl_GetInt(3tcl)



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NAME
       Tcl_GetInt,  Tcl_GetDouble,  Tcl_GetBoolean  -  convert  from string to
       integer, double, or boolean

SYNOPSIS
       #include <tcl.h>

       int
       Tcl_GetInt(interp, src, intPtr)

       int
       Tcl_GetDouble(interp, src, doublePtr)

       int
       Tcl_GetBoolean(interp, src, boolPtr)

ARGUMENTS
       Tcl_Interp *interp (in)             Interpreter  to   use   for   error
                                           reporting.

       const char *src (in)                Textual value to be converted.

       int *intPtr (out)                   Points  to  place  to store integer
                                           value converted from src.

       double *doublePtr (out)             Points to place  to  store  double-
                                           precision floating-point value con-
                                           verted from src.

       int *boolPtr (out)                  Points to place  to  store  boolean
                                           value (0 or 1) converted from src.
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DESCRIPTION
       These  procedures  convert from strings to integers or double-precision
       floating-point values or booleans (represented as 0- or 1-valued  inte-
       gers).   Each of the procedures takes a src argument, converts it to an
       internal form of a particular type, and stores the converted  value  at
       the  location indicated by the procedure's third argument.  If all goes
       well, each of the procedures returns TCL_OK.  If src does not have  the
       proper syntax for the desired type then TCL_ERROR is returned, an error
       message is left in the interpreter's result, and nothing is  stored  at
       *intPtr or *doublePtr or *boolPtr.

       Tcl_GetInt  expects  src  to consist of a collection of integer digits,
       optionally signed and optionally preceded and followed by white  space.
       If  the  first two characters of src after the optional white space and
       sign are "0x" then src is expected to be in hexadecimal  form;   other-
       wise,  if the first such characters are "0o" then src is expected to be
       in octal form;  otherwise, if the first such characters are  "0b"  then
       src  is  expected  to  be in binary form;  otherwise, if the first such
       character is "0" then src is expected to be in octal form;   otherwise,
       src is expected to be in decimal form.

       Tcl_GetDouble  expects src to consist of a floating-point number, which
       is:  white space;  a sign; a sequence of digits;  a decimal point  ".";
       a  sequence of digits;  the letter "e"; a signed decimal exponent;  and
       more white space.  Any of the fields may be omitted,  except  that  the
       digits  either before or after the decimal point must be present and if
       the "e" is present then it must be followed by the exponent number.  If
       there  are no fields apart from the sign and initial sequence of digits
       (i.e., no decimal point or exponent indicator), that  initial  sequence
       of  digits  should  take  one  of  the  forms that Tcl_GetInt supports,
       described above. The use of "," as a decimal point is not supported nor
       should any other sort of inter-digit separator be present.

       Tcl_GetBoolean  expects  src to specify a boolean value.  If src is any
       of 0, false, no, or off, then Tcl_GetBoolean stores  a  zero  value  at
       *boolPtr.   If  src  is any of 1, true, yes, or on, then 1 is stored at
       *boolPtr.  Any of these  values  may  be  abbreviated,  and  upper-case
       spellings are also acceptable.


KEYWORDS
       boolean, conversion, double, floating-point, integer



ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | runtime/tcl-8    |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
       +---------------+------------------+

NOTES
       Source  code  for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This     software     was    built    from    source    available    at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.   The  original   community
       source was downloaded from  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl-
       core8.6.7-src.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at https://www.tcl.tk/.



Tcl                                                           Tcl_GetInt(3tcl)