How to test whether stringstream operator>> has parsed a bad type and skip it

Question

I am interested in discussing methods for using stringstream to parse a line with multiple types. I would begin by looking at the following line:

Answer 1

You can use std::istringstream::eof() to validate input like this:

#include 
#include 
#include 

// remove white-space from each end of a std::string
inline std::string& trim(std::string& s, const char* t = " \t")
{
    s.erase(s.find_last_not_of(t) + 1);
    s.erase(0, s.find_first_not_of(t));
    return s;
}

// serial input
std::istringstream in1(R"~(
 2.34 3 3.f 3.d .75 0 wibble 
)~");

// line input
std::istringstream in2(R"~(
2.34
 3

3.f
3.d
.75
0
wibble 
)~");

int main()
{
    std::string input;

    // NOTE: This technique will not work if input is empty
    // or contains only white-space characters. Therefore
    // it is safe to use after a conditional extraction
    // operation >> but it is not reliable after std::getline()
    // without further checks.

    while(in1 >> input)
    {
        // input will not be empty and will not contain white-space.
        double d;
        if((std::istringstream(input) >> d >> std::ws).eof())
        {
            // d is a valid double
            std::cout << "d1: " << d << '\n';
        }
    }

    std::cout << '\n';

    while(std::getline(in2, input))
    {
        // eliminate blank lines and lines
        // containing only white-space (trim())
        if(trim(input).empty())
            continue;

        // NOW this is safe to use

        double d;
        if((std::istringstream(input) >> d >> std::ws).eof())
        {
            // d is a valid double
            std::cout << "d2: " << d << '\n';
        }
    }
}

This works because the eof() check ensures that only the double was entered and not garbage like 12d4.