.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "MATCH_NUMBER" "9" "09 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME match_number \- .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp int match_number (substring_t * \fIs\fB, int * \fIresult\fB, int \fIbase\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIs\fB\fR substring to be scanned .TP \fB\fIresult\fB\fR resulting integer on success .TP \fB\fIbase\fB\fR base to use when converting string .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP Given a &substring_t and a base, attempts to parse the substring as a number in that base. On success, sets \fIresult\fR to the integer represented by the string and returns 0. Returns either -ENOMEM or -EINVAL on failure.