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Commit message:
The ID field was allowed to be empty, which would be then parsed as 0 by
strtol(). There remains bugs in this function, where parsing for from-
or to- IDs accepts spaces and produces 0, but this will conveniently be
fixed in a later commit introducing strtoui_strict().