C++ IsFloat function

Question

Does anybody know of a convenient means of determining if a string value \"qualifies\" as a floating-point number?

bool IsFloat( string MyString )
{
   ... e         


        

Answer 1

[EDIT: Fixed to forbid initial whitespace and trailing nonsense.]

#include 

bool isFloat(string s) {
    istringstream iss(s);
    float dummy;
    iss >> noskipws >> dummy;
    return iss && iss.eof();     // Result converted to bool
}

You could easily turn this into a function templated on a type T instead of float. This is essentially what Boost's lexical_cast does.