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long sl;

if (scanf("%ld", &sl); != 1) {
  /* handler error */
}

Compliant Solution

This compliant example uses fgets() to input a string and strtol() to convert the string to an integer. Error checking is provided to make sure that the value is a valid integer in the range of long.

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