Takes a hex-colon string representing a MAC address and outputs the corresponding integer version of the address.
Syntax
LJM_ERROR_RETURN LJM_MACToNumber(
const char * MACString,
unsigned long long * Number)
Parameters
MACString [in]
A hex-colon string representing a MAC address.
Number [out]
The numerical representation of MACString.
Returns
LJM errorcodes or 0 for no error. Returns LJME_INVALID_PARAMETER if MACString could not be parsed as a MAC address.
Remarks
Use this function to convert a human-readable interpretation of a MAC address into an integer value.
Example
Convert a MAC string into a number.
C
int LJMError;
unsigned long long Number;
LJMError = LJM_MACToNumber("78:45:C4:26:89:4A", &Number);
printf ("%llu \n", Number);
// prints 81952921372024