mint rstoi(string, ival)
   char *string;
   mint *ival;

string

is a pointer to the null-terminated string to convert.

ival

is a pointer to an mint variable to contain the converted value.

The legal range of values is from -32767 to 32767. The value -32768 is not valid because this value is a reserved value that indicates null.

If string corresponds to a null integer, ival points to the representation for a SMALLINT null. To convert a string that corresponds to a long integer, use rstol( ). Failure to do so can result in corrupt data representation.

=0

The conversion was successful.

!=0

The conversion failed.