ElementLookupTable Class Reference

Converts element designations (for example NA, Na, na) to atomic numbers (for example 11). More...

#include <ElementLookupTable.h>

List of all members.

Public Member Functions
	ElementLookupTable ()
	Constructor, constructs the LookupTable.
unsigned short int	lookupElement (string elementToLookup)
	Look up a specific element.
Protected Member Functions
void	stringToUpper (string &s)
	Converts a string to upper case.
Protected Attributes
map< string, unsigned short int >	myTable
	Maps the element strings to their atomic numbers.

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Detailed Description

Converts element designations (for example NA, Na, na) to atomic numbers (for example 11).

Author:

Rikard Lundmark

Note:

The elements are hard-coded.

Definition at line 27 of file ElementLookupTable.h.

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Member Function Documentation

unsigned short int ElementLookupTable::lookupElement

(

string

elementToLookup

)

Look up a specific element.

Returns:

the atomic number of the element, or 0 if the element was not found.

Definition at line 126 of file ElementLookupTable.cpp.

References myTable, and stringToUpper().

Referenced by Nukleid::parseAtomicNumber().

{
  stringToUpper(elementToLookup);
  if(myTable.find(elementToLookup)!=myTable.end())
    return myTable[elementToLookup];
  else
    return 0;
}

void ElementLookupTable::stringToUpper

(

string &

s

)

[protected]

Converts a string to upper case.

Parameters:

s	String to convert to uppercase.

Definition at line 136 of file ElementLookupTable.cpp.

Referenced by lookupElement().

{
  std::string::iterator i = s.begin();
  std::string::iterator end = s.end();
  
  while (i != end) {
    *i = std::toupper((unsigned char)*i);
    ++i;
  }
}

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• ElementLookupTable.h
• ElementLookupTable.cpp