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Checking if a string is an unsigned integer

Feb 5th, 2009

Hi,

I'm having problems checking whether a string is an unsigned integer. The code I am using only checks the first character of the string, so "a1" would return false, but "1a" would return true. Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

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bool checkUnsignedInt(string *str)
{
	unsigned long value;
	stringstream ss(*str);
 
	if (ss >> value)
	{
		return true;
	}
	else
	{
		return false;
	}
}
bool checkUnsignedInt(string *str)
{
	unsigned long value;
	stringstream ss(*str);

	if (ss >> value)
	{
		return true;
	}
	else
	{
		return false;
	}
}

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Re: Checking if a string is an unsigned integer

Feb 5th, 2009

What exactly is the problem? this works fine for me....nvm

EDIT:
of you need to loop through each character rather than just using the first one

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Last edited by Freaky_Chris; Feb 5th, 2009 at 1:31 pm.

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Re: Checking if a string is an unsigned integer

Feb 6th, 2009

Maybe something like this comes helpful:

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bool checkUnsignedInt(string *str)
{
	unsigned long value;
	stringstream ss(*str);
 
	if (ss >> value)
	{
                string str;
                ss >> str;
                return str.empty(); // nothing following the digits
	}
	return false;
}

bool checkUnsignedInt(string *str)
{
	unsigned long value;
	stringstream ss(*str);

	if (ss >> value)
	{
                string str;
                ss >> str;
                return str.empty(); // nothing following the digits
	}
	return false;
}

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Re: Checking if a string is an unsigned integer

Feb 6th, 2009

*Mumbles something about multiple exit points*

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Re: Checking if a string is an unsigned integer

Feb 7th, 2009

You can do that:

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bool checkUnsignedInt(const string &str)
{
	return atoi(str.c_str()) >= 0;
}
bool checkUnsignedInt(const string &str)
{
	return atoi(str.c_str()) >= 0;
}

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Re: Checking if a string is an unsigned integer

Feb 9th, 2009

I think you can simply check if the first character is a numeral.

Last edited by kbshibukumar; Feb 9th, 2009 at 10:01 am.

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Re: Checking if a string is an unsigned integer

Feb 9th, 2009

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Originally Posted by kbshibukumar

I think you can simply check if the first character is a numeral.

Thats what his code does, but that doesn't mean that "1dfjkghdflgh" is an integer, because it isn't. But by your logic it would be.

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Re: Checking if a string is an unsigned integer

Feb 9th, 2009

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inline bool isUint(const std::string& s)
{
    return s.find_first_not_of("0123456789") == std::string::npos;
}
inline bool isUint(const std::string& s)
{
    return s.find_first_not_of("0123456789") == std::string::npos;
}