How to convert array of chars to array of ints?

Question

I have a rather newbie question but I can't figure it out.

Lets say I have this char array:

char array[] = "10,11,12,1,0,1,0";

How can I convert it to an array of int like this?

int arrayINT[] = {10,11,12,1,0,1,0};

• Mark Smith: Are you sure those arrays contain what you want them to? In the first case, are you looking for an array which contains the values 10, 11, 12, 1, 0, 1 and 0? (That's not what you have -- you have a string containing an ASCII 1, an ASCII 0, an ASCII comma, and so on.) And the second one I'm almost certain isn't what you want - it's an array of pointers to very short strings (if the compiler even allows it).
• Houdasek: yes i know, i'm building http server and this is a part of a string that i recieve from my web page
• Mark Smith: OK. Do you want it to end up as int arrayINT[] = { 10, 11, 12, 1, 0, 1, 0 } ?
• Houdasek: Yes, it seems that Majenko's answer below is working properly :)
• Mark Smith: I'll edit your question then, so it asks what you want.

Answer 1

If you have a C string containing ASCII numbers with a common delimiter (comma in this case) you can use the strtok() function to split it into individual strings. Then you can use atoi() to convert those individual strings into integers:

char array[] = "10,11,12,1,0,1,0";
int intArray[7]; // or more if you want some extra room? 
int ipos = 0;
// Get the first token from the string
char *tok = strtok(array, ",");
// Keep going until we run out of tokens
while (tok) {
 // Don't overflow your target array
 if (ipos < 7) {
 // Convert to integer and store it
 intArray[ipos++] = atoi(tok);
 }
 // Get the next token from the string - note the use of NULL
 // instead of the string in this case - that tells it to carry
 // on from where it left off.
 tok = strtok(NULL, ",");
}

Note that strtok() is a destructive function. It will decimate your existing string with NULL characters as it slices it up.

• Houdasek: Amazing, this is working. I knew about strtok() and atoi() but couldn't get them working properly. Thanks very much!!
• ott--: A major improvement would be counting the commas in the string and allocating an array of the approriate size. On the other hand, why not convert the nth value at runtime?