Re: How to use the "unsigned" representation of a number

From:

"Sylvester Hesp" <s.hesp@oisyn.nl>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.c++

Date:

Mon, 14 May 2007 14:14:17 +0200

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"FabioAng" <fabioangNOSPAM@libero.it> wrote in message
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Is there a way to use always the "unsigned" representation, e.g.

template<typename InputType>
bool is_valid_xml_range(InputType input)
{
  UnsignedInputType uinput = input;

  if ( ( uinput >= 0x20 ) && ( uinput <= 0xD7FF ) )
     return true;
  else
     return false;
}

You can do it via template specialization

template<class T> struct unsigned_type { typedef T type; };
template<> struct unsigned_type<char> { typedef unsigned char type; };
template<> struct unsigned_type<signed char> { typedef unsigned char
type; };
template<> struct unsigned_type<short> { typedef unsigned short type; };
template<> struct unsigned_type<int> { typedef unsigned int type; };
template<> struct unsigned_type<long> { typedef unsigned long type; };

template<typename InputType>
bool is_valid_xml_range(InputType input)
{
   typedef unsigned_type<InputType>::type UnsignedInputType;
   UnsignedInputType uinput = input;

   if ( ( uinput >= 0x20 ) && ( uinput <= 0xD7FF ) )
      return true;
   else
      return false;
}

- Sylvester