Thread: My calculator program. Final fixes.

OK! I almost made my calculator me proof! (read: idiot proof; ...if you knew me, that'd be funnier. Err... wait. Actually after all of this, you'll probably find it funny. Well, you will after my question, anyway... I like questions. You know what my favorite question is? ... ...Ok, now you think I'm an idiot.}

Anyway, I have one last problem with my calculator. All of the "Improper value" warnings only work if the improper value is a number. If it's any other character, my program crashes.
This is because the variables that this "Improper value" warning acts on is an integer. ¬_¬

So what can I define the variable as so that it works for both characters and numbers?

--SlyMaelstrom
"My favorite question is: 'Jigga what?' "

You could read in a std::string from the <string> header, and then write a function to convert it to a number. If it fails, then just print your message.

Additionally, there are a few functions from the C library that might help you out: http://cppreference.com/stdstring.html

Using Zach L. stuff is probably the easist. Using atoi(); to convert over to an integer again .
Example usage of atoi():

Code:

char buffer[] = "142525";
int intBuffer;
intBuffer = atoi(buffer);

hehe, I tried my best to show you