#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <cassert>
#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
#include <vcl.h>

//From http://www.richelbilderbeek.nl/CppStringGridToVector.htm
template <class T>
const std::vector<std::vector<T> > StringGridToVector(const TStringGrid * const stringGrid)
{
  assert(stringGrid!=0 && "StringGrid must not be NULL");
  const int height = stringGrid->RowCount;
  const int width  = stringGrid->ColCount;
  std::vector<std::vector<T> > v(height, std::vector<T>(width));
  for (int y=0; y!=height; ++y)
  {
    assert(y >=0);
    assert(y < static_cast<int>(v.size()) );
    std::vector<T>& line = v[y];
    //Don't have the guts to do a line-access on a TStringGrid...

    for (int x=0; x!=width; ++x)
    {
      assert(x >=0);
      assert(x < static_cast<int>(line.size()) );
      //const_cast because the VCL is not const-correct. Grumble, grumble...
      const std::string s = (const_cast<TStringGrid*>(stringGrid)->Cells[x][y]).c_str();
      const T t = boost::lexical_cast<T>(s);
      vLine[x] = t;
    }
  }
  return v;
}