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From Doug McNaught
Subject Re: ...lame use of casting, looking for workaround...
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In response to ...lame use of casting, looking for workaround...  (Adam Haberlach <adam@newsnipple.com>)
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Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes:

> >         I'm looking for a workaround that will let him do his
> > "conversion" transparently: some form of atoi that will return
> > 0 if it finds no numbers instead of blowing up.  Anyone got
> > one?

The proper solution, of course, is to slap him silly and then make him
rewrite his code.  ;)

-Doug

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