How can I convert a std::string to int?

Question

Just have a quick question. I\'ve looked around the internet quite a bit and I\'ve found a few solutions but none of them have worked yet. Looking at converting a string to

Answer 1

Admittedly, my solution wouldn't work for negative integers, but it will extract all positive integers from input text containing integers. It makes use of numeric_only locale:

int main() {
        int num;
        std::cin.imbue(std::locale(std::locale(), new numeric_only()));
        while ( std::cin >> num)
             std::cout << num << std::endl;
        return 0;
}

Input text:

 the format (-5) or (25) etc... some text.. and then.. 7987...78hjh.hhjg9878

Output integers:

 5
25
7987
78
9878

The class numeric_only is defined as:

struct numeric_only: std::ctype 
{
    numeric_only(): std::ctype(get_table()) {}

    static std::ctype_base::mask const* get_table()
    {
        static std::vector 
            rc(std::ctype::table_size,std::ctype_base::space);

        std::fill(&rc['0'], &rc[':'], std::ctype_base::digit);
        return &rc[0];
    }
};

Complete online demo : http://ideone.com/dRWSj