I would like to count the numbers in a string /c++ - c++

Question

I have tried to count the numbers in a string but it doesnt work and I think it is logically good. I am a beginner in programming.
I know it works for one-digit numbers but that's intentional.
#include <iostream>
#include <string.h>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int numbs [10] = {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9};
string str1;
cin >> str1;
vector <unsigned int> positions;
for (int a = 0 ;a <=10;a++)
{
int f = numbs[a];
string b = to_string(f);
unsigned pos = str1.find(b,0);
while(pos !=string::npos)
{
positions.push_back(pos);
pos = str1.find(b,pos+1);
break;
}
}
cout << "The count of numbers:" << positions.size() <<endl;
return 0;
}

Answer 1

If you need only to count digits in a string then there is no sense to use std::vector. You can count them without the vector. For example
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
int main()
{
std::string s( "A12B345C789" );
size_t count = 0;
for ( std::string::size_type pos = 0;
( pos = s.find_first_of( "0123456789", pos ) ) != std::string::npos;
++pos )
{
++count;
}
std::cout << "The count of numbers: " << count << std::endl;
return 0;
}
The output is
The count of numbers: 8
Also you could use standard algorithm std::count_if defined in header <algorithm>
For example
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <algorithm>
#include <cctype>
int main()
{
std::string s( "A12B345C789" );
size_t count = std::count_if( s.begin(), s.end(),
[]( char c ) { return std::isdigit( c ); } );
std::cout << "The count of numbers: " << count << std::endl;
return 0;
}
The output is
The count of numbers: 8
If you need to count numbers instead of digits in a string then you should use standard C function strtol or C++ function std::stoi

Answer 2

Use substrings to extract every part of string with a delimiter(normally a space). Then convert each substring to number. The ones that qualify and converts probably are the numbers in your string. See how many you get.

Answer 3

You might also be interested in the C++ function "isdigit":
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/locale/isdigit/
For example:
include <iostream>
#include <string.h>
#include <vector>
#include <locale> // std::locale, std::isdigit
using namespace std;
int main()
{
// Initialze array with count for each digit, 0 .. 9
int counts[10] = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,0, 0, 0 };
int total = 0;
// Read input string
string str;
cin >> str;
// Parse each character in the string.
std::locale loc;
for (int i=0; i < str.length(); i++) {
if isdigit (str[i], loc) {
int idx = (int)str[i];
counts[idx]++
total++;
}
// Print results
cout << "The #/digits found in << str << " is:" << total << endl;
// If you wanted, you could also print the total for each digit ...
return 0;
}