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

Question

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 r

Answer 1

Could you simply use sscanf's return code to determine if it's an int?

bool is_number(const std::string& s)
{
    int value;
    int result = sscanf(valueStr.c_str(), "%d", &value);
    return (result != EOF && readResult != 0);
}