--- trunk/src/utils/StringUtils.hpp	2005/05/27 04:41:34	544
+++ trunk/src/utils/StringUtils.hpp	2008/10/16 18:17:41	1305
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 #ifndef UTILS_STRINGUTILS_HPP
 #define UTILS_STRINGUTILS_HPP
 #include <string>
+#include <string.h>
 #include <iostream>
 #include <fstream>
 #include <sstream>
@@ -83,7 +84,7 @@ namespace oopse {
    *
    * @return the line number of the block within the theStream
    */
-  int findBegin(std::istream &theStream, char* startText );
+  int findBegin(std::istream &theStream, const char* startText );
 
   /**
    * Counts the number of tokens on line which are delimited by the characters 
@@ -102,7 +103,11 @@ namespace oopse {
    */
   int isEndLine(char *line);
 
+  bool CaseInsensitiveEquals(char ch1, char ch2);
 
+  size_t CaseInsensitiveFind(const std::string& str1, const std::string& str2);
+
+
   /**
    * Convert a variable to a string
    * @param T data type
@@ -127,6 +132,20 @@ namespace oopse {
     }
     return result;
   }
+
+
+  template<typename T>
+  bool isType(const std::string& str) {
+    T result;
+    std::istringstream iss(str);        
+    bool ret = true;
+    if (!(iss >> result)) {
+        ret = false;
+    }
+    return ret;
+  }
+
+  bool isInteger(const std::string& str);
   
   std::string OOPSE_itoa(int value, unsigned int base = 10);
   
@@ -136,8 +155,24 @@ namespace oopse {
   /**@todo need implementation */
   std::string getSuffix(const std::string& str);
   
-  
 
+template<class ContainerType>
+std::string containerToString(const ContainerType& cont) {
+    std::ostringstream oss;
+    oss << "(";
+    typename ContainerType::const_iterator i = cont.begin();
+    if (i != cont.end()) {
+        oss << *i;
+        ++i;
+    }
+    for (; i != cont.end();++i) {
+        oss << ", ";
+        oss << *i;
+    }
+    oss << ")";
+    return oss.str();
+}  
+
   
 }  
 #endif