Atoi without Error

stringFunctions.go

@@ -9,12 +9,18 @@ Individual permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http
 **/
 package ebkTools
 
-import "math"
+import (
+	"math"
+	"strconv"
+)
 
 // ShortenString() shortens String in them MIDDLE and inserts a surrogate. It ist possible to prevent shortening, if maximum stringlength is inside a tolerance space
 // 	fmt.Println(shortenString("abcdefghi",6,2,"[…]")) //a[…]hi
 func ShortenString(input string, lengthmax, tolerance int, surrogate string) (output string) {
 	if len(input) > int(lengthmax+tolerance) && lengthmax != 0 {
+		if len(surrogate) == 0 {
+			surrogate = "[…]" //Set Default
+		}
 
 		charstodelete := (float64(lengthmax) / 2) - (float64(len(surrogate)) / 2)
 		front := input[0 : int(math.Floor(charstodelete))+1]
@@ -26,3 +32,12 @@ func ShortenString(input string, lengthmax, tolerance int, surrogate string) (ou
 
 	return
 }
+
+// Atoi() without Error, returning integer only
+func Atoi(s string) int {
+	i, err := strconv.Atoi(s)
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+	return i
+}