VarParseNumFromStr

This function parses a string and creates a type-independent description of the number it represents.

At a Glance

Header file: Oleauto.h
Windows CE versions: 2.0 and later

Syntax

HRESULT VarParseNumFromStr( [in] OLECHAR * strIn, [in] LCID lcid, [in] unsigned long dwFlags, [in] NUMPARSE * pnumprs, [out] unsigned char * rgbDig);

Parameters

strIn

Input string to be converted to a number.

lcid

Locale identifier

pnumprs

Parsed results.

dwFlags

Enables the caller to control parsing, therefore defining the acceptable syntax of a number. If this field is set to zero, the input string must contain nothing but decimal digits. Setting each defined flag bit enables parsing of that syntactic feature. Standard Automation parsing (for example, as used by VarI2FromStr) has all flags set (NUMPRS_STD).

rgbDig

Array filled in with the values for the digits in the range 0–7, 0–9, or 0–15, depending on whether the number is octal, decimal, or hexadecimal. All leading zeros have been stripped off. For decimal numbers, trailing zeros are also stripped off, unless the number is zero, in which case a single zero digit will be present.

Return Values

One of the values obtained from the returned HRESULT and described in the following table is returned.

Value Description
S_OK Success.
E_OUTOFMEMORY Internal memory allocation failed. (Used for DBCS only to create a copy with all wide characters mapped narrow.)
DISP_E_TYPEMISMATCH There is no valid number in the string, or there is no closing parenthesis to match an opening one. In the former case, cDig and cchUsed in the NUMPARSE structure will be zero. In the latter, the NUMPARSE structure and digit array are fully updated, as if the closing parenthesis was present.
DISP_E_OVERFLOW For hexadecimal and octal digits, there are more digits than will fit into the array. For decimal, the exponent exceeds the maximum possible. In both cases, the NUMPARSE structure and digit array are fully updated (for decimal, the cchUsed member excludes the entire exponent).

Remarks

Passing into this function any invalid and, under some circumstances, NULL pointers will result in unexpected termination of the application.