Convert MFC CString to integer

Question

How to convert a CString object to integer in MFC.

Answer 1

The simplest approach is to use the atoi() function found in stdlib.h:

CString s = "123";
int x = atoi( s );

However, this does not deal well with the case where the string does not contain a valid integer, in which case you should investigate the strtol() function:

CString s = "12zzz";    // bad integer
char * p;
int x = strtol ( s, & p, 10 );
if ( * p != 0 ) {
   // s does not contain an integer
}