[ale] String -> Number

[Christopher Fowler]

That's a C function.  Do I have to use the  POSIX interface to get the
number.

On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 14:14, Denny Chambers wrote:
> man atoi
> 
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> >Is there a formal method of converting a string to a number?  I'm
> >reading a line from a socket that is really a number.  I'm passing that
> >var as an argument to IO::Socket::INET but it fails connection.  By 
> >
> >This works
> >
> >
> >#strip line terminateor off
> >    chomp($line);
> >    $SPORT = $line;
> >
> >    close($sock);
> >
> >    if($VERBOSE == 1) {
> >        print (STDOUT "Connecting to secondary server on port ", $SPORT,
> >"\n");
> >    }
> >
> >    my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET (
> >                                     PeerAddr => $SERVER,
> >                                     PeerPort => 783,
> >                                     Proto => 'tcp',
> >                                     );
> >    die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock;
> >
> >This does not
> >    my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET (
> >                                     PeerAddr => $SERVER,
> >                                     PeerPort => $SPORT,
> >                                     Proto => 'tcp',
> >                                     );
> >    die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock;
> >
> >I'm trying to write a portable logging program that will log output
> >received to a file.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Chris
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >  
> >


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