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  • Why? Why not just not call it as a string or char... much easier. Commented Oct 9, 2012 at 1:56
  • What do you want to happen for strings and chars? And what about char pointers and arrays? Commented Oct 9, 2012 at 2:03
  • I'm taking in an input that is supposed to have a sequence of numbers 1st which i store in an array. Then afterwards ideally there should be characters following the numbers. I need to parse the numbers into the proper type then store them into a template array i have somewhere else. Commented Oct 9, 2012 at 2:06