+ try {
+ boost::algorithm::replace_all (s, ",", ".");
+ return lexical_cast<float> (s);
+ } catch (bad_lexical_cast) {
+ boost::algorithm::replace_all (s, ".", ",");
+ return lexical_cast<float> (s);
+ }
+}
+
+string
+careful_string_filter (string s)
+{
+ /* Filter out `bad' characters which `may' cause problems with some systems (either for DCP name or filename).
+ There's no apparent list of what really is allowed, so this is a guess.
+ Safety first and all that.
+ */
+
+ string out;
+ string const allowed = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-_%.";
+ for (size_t i = 0; i < s.size(); ++i) {
+ if (allowed.find (s[i]) != string::npos) {
+ out += s[i];
+ }
+ }
+
+ return out;