Use a string util for converting strings to

        integers, as per Bjorns suggestion.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/utils/string.cpp b/src/utils/string.cpp
index abd6eb88..79ca4dc6 100644
--- a/src/utils/string.cpp
+++ b/src/utils/string.cpp
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 
 #include <cctype>
 #include <algorithm>
+#include <sstream>
 
 std::string utils::toupper(std::string s)
 {
@@ -42,3 +43,14 @@ bool utils::isNumeric(const std::string &s)
 
     return true;
 }
+
+int utils::stringToInt(const std::string &s)
+{
+    int value;
+    std::stringstream str(s);
+
+    // put the string into the int
+    str >> value;
+
+    return value;
+}