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// Authors: David Rosckes (rosckes@us.ibm.com)
//          Bert Rivero (hurivero@us.ibm.com)
//          Chuck Carmack (carmack@us.ibm.com)
//          Brian Lucier (lucier@us.ibm.com)
//
// Modified By: David Dillard, VERITAS Software Corp.
//                  (david.dillard@veritas.com)
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#ifndef Pegasus_CQLUtilities_h
#define Pegasus_CQLUtilities_h


#ifdef PEGASUS_USE_EXPERIMENTAL_INTERFACES

#include <Pegasus/CQL/Linkage.h>

PEGASUS_NAMESPACE_BEGIN

// Forward declares
class String;

class CQLUtilities
{
public:
  static Uint64 stringToUint64(const String &stringNum);
  static Sint64 stringToSint64(const String &stringNum);
  static Real64 stringToReal64(const String &stringNum);

  // This will take a formated string representing a real number and if
  // it uses scientific notiation, then it will strip off leading 0's
  // in the exponent.  If the exponent only has 0's, then it will strip
  // the exponent symbol also.  (ie  "2.56E-00" becomes "2.56"; "2.56E-04"
  // becomes "2.56E-4".  If there is no exponent, then nothing is changed.
  // This will also remove a leading '+' sign from the exponent if it is
  // there.
  static String formatRealStringExponent(const String &realString);

private:
  // This is a helper function which checks if a string has a decimal
  // point in it.  If so, it calls it a real.  In the case of a badly
  // formated string, it will fail the format check in StringToReal64.
  static Boolean isReal(const String &numString);
};

PEGASUS_NAMESPACE_END
#endif
#endif
