title: Basics of strtol?
body: <p>I am really confused. I have to be missing something rather simple but nothing I am reading about strtol() is making sense. Can someone spell it out for me in a really basic way, as well as give an example for how I might get something like the following to work?</p>
  
  <pre><code>string input = getUserInput;
  int numberinput = strtol(input,?,?);
  </code></pre>