@lanodan @ska i also don't have my own personal catchall lib

i also prefer to make smaller libs that can be packaged individually, and provide a set of utilities for a given topic, say a lib here for linear algebra math, or so on -- not a fan of "the one package with N libs under my name", it also helps that meson/muon lets me easily include what i need in a project as a subproject/wrap-file

so far i've used strtol and kindof just... checked if endptr matched what i expected the string to be