Re: Test a string for Integer
kingbarsa ha scritto:
Basic Question.
If you are reading a string from an external file, and want to check
whether that string contains a single integer or a string of text. how
to?
Eg
fgets(tmpstr,80,disk);
char szBuffer[2];
StrLCopy(szBuffer,tmpstr,1);
AnsiString tempstr = szBuffer;
if (tempstr.ToInt()............
I don't want it to throw an Convert Exception if it is not an Integer,
I still want to proceed and use the text string in tmpstr, OR if it is
an integer then use that integer and assign it to a variable.
What check do I use, to test if the line starts with an integer or
not?
// assuming buf is null-terminated
char* endptr;
long i = strtol(buf, &endptr, 10);
if (*endptr)
{
// buf contains a string
}
else
{
// buf contains an integer and the value is i
}
HTH,
Ganesh
PS: please, do not assume people are familiar with non-standard C++
libraries on this newsgroup.
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