Strings and numbers

The Standard Library contains various functions and classes to convert between C++ strings and numeric values.

Converting strings to numbers

The C++ standard library contains functions with names like stod and stoi that convert a C++ string object to a numeric value (stod converts to a double and stoi converts to an integer). For example:

    double d = stod("10.5"); 
    d *= 4; 
    cout << d << "n"; // 42

This will initialize the floating-point variable d with a value of 10.5, which is then used in a calculation and the result is printed on the console. The input string may have characters that cannot be converted. If this is the case then the parsing of the string ends...