Converting from string to int

I've been trying to figure out for 2 hours how to translate a series of chars (in a string) into int variables in C++. What I got this far is:

int x << (int)stringvar[5];

It builds, but it returns every character as a 0.

anyone got any ideas?

>>9
But then you tried using an int as a fucking stringstream or whatever the fuck you were doing with that bitshift you thought was overloaded.