NAME

SYNOPSIS

char *asn1_long_in(str, pos, li)
char *str, *pos;
asn1_long *li;

char *asn1_long_out(str, li)
char *str;
asn1_long *li;

int asn1_long_olen(li)
asn1_long *li;

DESCRIPTION

The ASN.1 library routines allow C programmers to describe arbitrary data structures in a machine-independent fashion. All ASN.1 routines require the header "asn1.h" to be include.

These routines convert string of decimal digits into integers of arbitrary length. The integers are stored using the defined type asn1_long (see asn1_long(9x)) :

• asn1_long_in() converts as an asn1_long the value represented by the string of decimal digits pointed to by str. The string is scanned up to the last character pointed to by pos, or up to this first non numeric character.
• asn1_long_out() provides the inverse of asn1_long_in(). It returns as a string of decimal digits the long integer pointed to by li.
• asn_long_olen() returns the number of characters required to convert as a string of decimal digits the long integer pointed to by li. Including the null terminating character.

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