std::ws
Hi!
I'm parsing some text with a stringstream and came across something that
struck me as odd. I'm testing if a string contains a number (surrounded by
optional whitespace) and different stdlibs behave differently.
unsigned n;
in >> std::ws >> n >> std::ws;
if( !in.fail() && in.eof())
...//it's a number
Using "10" as input, the problem I have is that after the unsigned value is
read the streamstate is eof. The following '>> std::ws' then causes the
streamstate to be fail|eof, at least with some implementations.
My prerelease copy of the standard says explicitly that ws sets eofbit but
not failbit if no more characters are available, but it doesn't explicitly
mention what happens when the eofbit is already set when it is invoked.
My guess is that it should detect eofbit and and simply return instead of
setting failbit, but I'd like to clarify that.
Uli
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