expand_number(3) - Manual pages

NAME

expand_number — format a number from human readable form

library “libutil”

#include <libutil.h>

int
expand_number(const char *buf, uint64_t *num);

The expand_number() function unformats the buf string and stores a unsigned 64-bit quantity at address pointed out by the num argument.

The expand_number() function is case-insensitive and follows the SI power of two convention.

The prefixes are:

Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

The expand_number() function will fail if:

The expand_number() function first appeared in FreeBSD 6.3.