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

to check if a string is a number integer or floating point or so you could use :

 #include <sstream>

    bool isNumber(string str) {
    double d;
    istringstream is(str);
    is >> d;
    return !is.fail() && is.eof();
}

Answer 2

Here is a solution for checking positive integers:

bool isPositiveInteger(const std::string& s)
{
    return !s.empty() && 
           (std::count_if(s.begin(), s.end(), std::isdigit) == s.size());
}

Answer 3

As it was revealed to me in an answer to my related question, I feel you should use boost::conversion::try_lexical_convert

Answer 4

Yet another answer, that uses stold (though you could also use stof/stod if you don't require the precision).

bool isNumeric(const std::string& string)
{
    std::size_t pos;
    long double value = 0.0;

    try
    {
        value = std::stold(string, &pos);
    }
    catch(std::invalid_argument&)
    {
        return false;
    }
    catch(std::out_of_range&)
    {
        return false;
    }

    return pos == string.size() && !std::isnan(value);
}

Answer 5

include <string>

For Validating Doubles:

bool validateDouble(const std::string & input) {
int decimals = std::count(input.begin(), input.end(), '.'); // The number of decimals in the string
int negativeSigns = std::count(input.begin(), input.end(), '-'); // The number of negative signs in the string

if (input.size() == decimals + negativeSigns) // Consists of only decimals and negatives or is empty
    return false;
else if (1 < decimals || 1 < negativeSigns) // More than 1 decimal or negative sign
    return false;
else if (1 == negativeSigns && input[0] != '-') // The negative sign (if there is one) is not the first character
    return false;
else if (strspn(input.c_str(), "-.0123456789") != input.size()) // The string contains a character that isn't in "-.0123456789"
    return false;
return true;

}

For Validating Ints (With Negatives)

bool validateInt(const std::string & input) {
int negativeSigns = std::count(input.begin(), input.end(), '-'); // The number of negative signs in the string

if (input.size() == negativeSigns) // Consists of only negatives or is empty
    return false;
else if (1 < negativeSigns) // More than 1 negative sign
    return false;
else if (1 == negativeSigns && input[0] != '-') // The negative sign (if there is one) is not the first character
    return false;
else if (strspn(input.c_str(), "-0123456789") != input.size()) // The string contains a character that isn't in "-0123456789"
    return false;
return true;

}

For Validating Unsigned Ints

bool validateUnsignedInt(const std::string & input) {
return (input.size() != 0 && strspn(input.c_str(), "0123456789") == input.size()); // The string is not empty and contains characters only in "0123456789"

}

Answer 6

We may use a stringstream class.

    bool isNumeric(string str)
    {
       stringstream stream;                   
       double number;

       stream<<str;
       stream>>number;

       return stream.eof();
    }