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[Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 13:50, Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> wrote:

> Numbers in an XML document or in a program are just strings and, to perform arithmetic operations on them, those string numbers must be converted to actual numbers. I looked at the source code for the C function (strtol) that converts strings to numbers and here is the key to how it converts a character digit to a number digit:

> Obviously I am not understanding something correctly. Please help me to understand.

converted to 'actual numbers'? Whose definition?

C function? Written in English perchance? Which compiler?

I think it's the application you're complaining about... about which
you are complaining.

regards


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