On 10/17/2016 10:44 AM, Ashijeet Acharya wrote:

> 
> I think, its better to keep using atoi() and check if it returns a '0'

Please not atoi(), as it lacks sane error checking. It cannot tell the
difference between '1' and '1garbage'.  It's obvious that you want to
treat both '0' and 'name' as an error, but that is not the only error
you want to flag, thus atoi() is insufficient to flag all the errors you
want.


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