handling "segmentation fault" error

[n0de]

Hi,

there is that thing that i need to handle atoi () function error.. Now for explanation atoi ( some const char * which is int (like '1') ) gives me that int, but if i write like this atoi ( 'n' ) then shit happens and it return's a 0.
So in order to do something when wrong happens i logicaly would do so:

if ( atoi ( (const char *) some_char ) == 0 )
{
/*<...>
things i want to do
<...>*/
}

but my linux console say's segmentation fault after i run my compiled program with that kind of thing.

So how can i control that error, so i could do things i want when things go bad ? or i should use another conversion from char to int (but that conversion would have to say when things are bad) ?

[gerard4143]

What is 'some_char'?

[n0de]

What is 'some_char'?

simply some char, like:

char some_char = 'n' ;

[gerard4143]

Right from my help files.

int atoi(const char *nptr);

The atoi() function converts the initial portion of the string pointed
to by nptr to int.

atoi accepts a c-string not a char.

[ravenous]

you should probably use isdigit() instead, to decide if doing atoi() is worthwhile. More about these kinds of things here

[n0de]

Right from my help files.

int atoi(const char *nptr);

The atoi() function converts the initial portion of the string pointed
to by nptr to int.

atoi accepts a c-string not a char.

ok, then how can i make char into c-string ? just for the future, and curiosity, because the post above is wonderful, didn't knew about those functions.

[n0de]

you should probably use isdigit() instead, to decide if doing atoi() is worthwhile. More about these kinds of things here

thank's ;) you are wonderful, i will use it, but i am still waiting for the answer about the char..

[ravenous]

thank's ;) you are wonderful, i will use it, but i am still waiting for the answer about the char..

I don't know the details of about how atoi() works, but I expect that it looks for a \0 character, and a simple char doesn't have that. This would mean that atoi() would just keep going through memory until it happens to come across a \0 . So,

char num = '1';
atoi(num);

will fail to compile, but

char num[] = "1";
atoi(num);

will work fine, since the string is null-terminated. Just casting a char to a const char * does not give you the null terminating character.

What's the wider context of what you're trying to do, maybe there's an alternative way?

[gerard4143]

ravenous beat me to the answer.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(int argc, const char **argv)
{
	char ch[] = "12";

	int ans = atoi(ch);

	fprintf(stdout, "ans->%d\n", ans);
	return 0;
}

[n0de]

Thank you guys ;)

[MeduZaPaT]

to convert a chat to int you only need to do this:

char character = '1';
int number = character - '0'; //now number equals 1