Re: convert string into an array

From:
"Jim Langston" <tazmaster@rocketmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 4 Jul 2007 19:36:38 -0700
Message-ID:
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"James Kanze" <james.kanze@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1183536448.703333.102290@n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
On Jul 3, 10:46 pm, "Jim Langston" <tazmas...@rocketmail.com> wrote:

I would use a stringstream.


Just curious, but why a stringstream, and not an istringstream?


I don't know. I use stringstream for all types of conversion and it works.
What real advantage would istringstream give me?

    [...]

    std::string str_array = "{201,23,240,56,23,45,34,23}";
    std::stringstream Buffer;
    Buffer << str_array;


Why those two lines, instead of simply:

    std::istringstream Buffer( str_array ) ;


Becuase I normally use stringstring in one of my templates:

    template<typename T, typename F > T StrmConvert( const F from )
    {
        std::stringstream temp;
        temp << from;
        T to = T();
        temp >> to;
        return to;
    }

If I change this to

   std::string temp( from );

then I get compiler warnings at times depending on F.

warning C4244: 'argument' : conversion from 'const float' to
'std::_Iosb<_Dummy>::openmode', possible loss of data

and I go for 0% warnings in my code. I know that the form I use doesn't
give any warnings.

    char Trash;
    Buffer >> Trash; // Throw away (


Throw away, or verify, as a syntax check? (In my experience,
you can never verify input too much.)


Agreed, but in most instances where I'm using stringstream for conversion
I've verified the data before I try to convert it, or the output makes it
obvious there was a problem. With user input data I would definately do
syntax checking of the string before/during/after the conversion.

    int Value;
    std::vector<int> Data;
    while ( Buffer >> Value )


    while ( Buffer >> Value && Trash != '}' )


This is really not needed though, unless there is extraneous data after
the ) such as

{201,23,240,56,23,45,34,23}75

etc... (not going to comment on the rest)

    {


And

    if ( Trash != (Data.empty() ? '{' : ',') ) {
        Buffer.setstate( std::ios::failbit ) ;
    }

here.

        Data.push_back( Value );
        Buffer >> Trash; // Throw away , or )
    }


And a final error check:

    if ( ! (Buffer >> std::ws && Buffer.get() == EOF ) {
        error ...
    }

    // Display vector data
    for ( std::vector<int>::iterator it = Data.begin(); it !=
Data.end();
++it )
        std::cout << *it << " ";
}


(But I like your basic algorithm better than the one I
suggested.)

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