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How to determine if a string is a number with C++?

Asked 2011-01-11T05:51:31.320
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I've had quite a bit of trouble trying to write a function that checks if a string is a number. For a game I am writing I just need to check if a line from the file I am reading is a number or not (I will know if it is a parameter this way). I wrote the below function which I believe was working smoothly (or I accidentally edited to stop it or I'm schizophrenic or Windows is schizophrenic):

bool isParam (string line)
{
    if (isdigit(atoi(line.c_str())))
        return true;

    return false;
}
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Use the std library functions like std::stoi now instead of lexical_cast.


You can do it the C++ way with boost::lexical_cast. If you really insist on not using boost you can just examine what it does and do that. It's pretty simple.

try 
{
  double x = boost::lexical_cast<double>(str); // double could be anything with >> operator.
}
catch(...) { oops, not a number }
answered 2011-01-11T06:06:38.177

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