Can't detect error with String to number conversions?

General JUCE discussion
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Is it right that there's no built-in way to detect if a conversion from a String to a number is actually an error? For example String::getDoubleValue() returning 0.0 from "a36.2" isn't exactly nice. The user probably meant to write "36.2" but typoed the a to the beginning and there isn't a built-in way to detect that I think? (0.0 could of course also be a valid input...)

Could these APIs be changed/extended to something like the following?

double String::getDoubleValue(bool* err=nullptr)

Where if the err is not nullptr it would be set to true if there was an error when parsing the string, false otherwise.

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We'll have to discuss this internally, but in the meantime you should take a look at ​String::containsOnly.

Hope this helps!