char* to long

[mta`chrono]

Why not just go the "good old" way? you char* should be zero terminated
when coming from c.

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private import  core.stdc.stdlib,
                std.stdio;

void main()
{
    const(char)* str = "1234567890".ptr;
    long lng = atoll(str);
    writeln(lng);
}
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