Converting a string to an integer

Can anyone help me convert a string into an integer? For example I have a string containing "12345" then send that string to a function and have it returned as the number 12345. Thanks for the help.

Code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int Convert(char *);
int main()
{
	char *s_str = "1234";
	int i_num = Convert(s_str);
	cout << i_num * 2;
}
int Convert(char *st)
{
	int i_num;
	int status = sscanf(st,"%d",&i_num);
	if(status == 1) return i_num;
	else
		return 1; //in C++ throw an exception
}

This uses sscanf to do it. It extracts the characters from the string and turns them into whatever you specify. If the specified type does not match what is in the string, than sscanf will return an error value. You should look up sscanf under you compilers help.

There is probably a more mature C++ way to do this but I'm rather new to C++ myself. I just wanted to give an example using sscanf.

There's a C function called atoi() that converts C-strings (char *) to integers. Is that good enough, or do you want to convert actual C++ strings directly?

Thanks ever so much. This board is great.