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Tcl_GetInt(3)		     Tcl Library Procedures		   Tcl_GetInt(3)

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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, intPtr)

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-preci-
					 sion	floating-point	value  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 integers).
     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.

     Tcl_GetInt  expects  src  to consist of a collection of integer digits, op-
     tionally 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;  otherwise, 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  se-
     quence  of  digits;   the	letter "e"; a signed decimal exponent;	and more
     white space.  Any of the fields may be omitted, except that the digits  ei-
     ther  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 *intPtr.   If
     src  is  any  of  1, true, yes, or on, then 1 is stored at *intPtr.  Any of
     these values may be abbreviated, and upper-case spellings are also  accept-
     able.

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

Tcl								   Tcl_GetInt(3)

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