Re: Converting a substring to Integer

From:
"Daniel T." <daniel_t@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:12:31 -0500
Message-ID:
<daniel_t-A1910B.11123106022008@earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>
sparkydarky <markdueck.bz@gmail.com> wrote:

I thought I knew C++ a little, but I realized that I don't because I
can barely follow what you guys posted. I tried to put some of the
code into Borland C++ Builder, but seems like Borland does not follow
the standards very well. Thanks for all your help. This will give me
really good base to work on and see if I can get it to work.


How about if I add all of the assumed bits? Copy the code below exactly
as written and paste it in. See if it compiles.

=== begin code ===
#include <limits>
#include <sstream>
#include <stdexcept>
#include <string>

int extractNumber( const std::string& str )
{
   using namespace std;
   int result = 0;
   stringstream ss( str );
   while ( !( ss >> result ) ) {
      if ( !ss.eof() ) {
         ss.clear();
         ss.ignore( numeric_limits<streamsize>::max(), ' ' );
      }
      else {
         throw runtime_error( "no number" );
      }
   }
   return result;
}

=== end code ===

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