STK_String_Util.cpp

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/*
 * Project:  Base
 * Purpose:  Define miscenaleous utility functions for Strings.
 * Author:   Serge Iovleff, serge.iovleff@stkpp.org
 *
 **/

#include "../include/STK_String_Util.h"

namespace STK
{
/*  Overloading of the istream >> for the type String. **/
istream& operator >> (istream& is, Proxy<String>& input)
{
  String buff;
  is >> buff;
  if (buff  == STRING_NA)
    input = Arithmetic<String>::NA();
  else
    input = buff;
  return is;
}


/* @ingroup Base
 *  @brief convert a character of the String to uppercase
 *
 *  @param s The String to convert
 **/
String& toUpperString( String& s)
{
  // iterate along the String
  for (String::iterator it = s.begin(); it != s.end(); ++it)
  { *it = std::toupper(*it);}
  // return upper cased string
 return s;
}

/* @ingroup Base
 *  @brief convert a character of the String to uppercase
 *
 *  @param s The String to convert
 **/
String toUpperString( String const& s)
{
  String res(s);
  toUpperString(res);
  return res;
}


} // namespace STK