Contolling istringstream input

From:

Ruben <ruben@www2.mrbrklyn.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++

Date:

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:03:26 -0400

Message-ID:

<pan.2008.09.16.23.03.24.367073@www2.mrbrklyn.com>

I want to get from stdin a string that might look like any of these three
options

99
99lb
99 lb

but if a number isn't at the beginning for the string, or is the left over
letters aren't either lb or kg, for an error to be be throw.

I can't seem to find a reasonable means of doing this.

If can do a
cin >> some_previous_double;
buf[] = 512;
istringstream stream1;
cin.ignore();
cin.getline(buf, 512);
try{
        stream1.str(descr);
        if (!(stream1>>hgt_))
        {
            errormsg.append(descr);
            throw errormsg;
        }
        if(!(stream1>>unit_))
        {
            errormsg.append(descr);
            throw errormsg;
        }
        if( unit_ == "meters"|unit_ == "meter" || unit_ == "m" \
        || unit_ == "mt"|| unit_ == "mtr"|| unit_ == "mt")
        {
            unit_ = "in";
            hgt_ = hgt_ * 39.37;

        }else if( unit_ == "in" || unit_ == "inch" || unit_ == "i"\
        || unit_ =="inches" ){
            unit_ = "in";
        }else{
            errormsg.append(":You entered =>");
            errormsg.append(descr);
            throw errormsg;
        }
        }
    catch (string errormsg){
        cout << "Error: Units error - can\'t determine type\n" << errormsg;
            cout << "\n" << "Setting Height to 68 inches\n";
        hgt_ = 68;
        unit_ = "in";
    }

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