From: uhfgood AT aol DOT com (Uhfgood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Using the atoi function...
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I have something wierd...  Basically I made a small program that asked for the
age of Methusela (a character in the bible who lived 969 years)...  Anyhow it
was supposed to demonstrate the atoi function, well it works but there's
something peculiur... basically I read in the number into the character array
years (as such char years[8]) and then i use age (which is in integer) like
this ( age = atoi(years) )
now i checked my code nothing wrong with the statements...  and yes i did use
an  i not an l ... anyhow, when i run the program, it works fine, no problems
but that's the point... I can type in up to 10 digits without displaying some
other number... it's as if i had used a long and stead of an int, but it is for
sure an int...  Can someone explain why i'm able to type up to 10 digits with
no problems.... I thought an integer could only hold up 32767... please reply
soon, and i'm sorry if this is an annoying newbie question.                    
                                            -KWII-

*Keith Weatherby II*
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