Re: Test a string for Integer

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Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:00:55 CST

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On 14 Nov., 23:20, kingbarsa <barry.kingw...@gmail.com> wrote:

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()............

This code does not use much components of the standard C++ library.
E.g. names like StrLCopy, AnsiString have no meaning for the
the general reader of this group.

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?

In non-portable mode, I would suggest the function TryStrToInt
from SysUtils if you are using one of the Borland compilers.

To make this question more interesting for the general
reader of this group: You could use a string stream,
assign the string to it and attempt to extract an int
value:

#include <string>
#include <sstream>

bool try_read(const std::string& s, int& val) {
   std::istringstream buf(s);
   return (buf >> val);
}

HTH & Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Kr?gler

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