Implementation of TauWPThreshold without need to catch exceptions [14_0_X]

[mbluj]

PR description:

As title says, this PR implements parsing of threshold values in the TauWPThreshold class using function which does not require catching exceptions. Namely, it replaces usage of std::stod by std::strtod.
It addresses #39627 independently raised also here #43100 (comment).

Backport of #43890

PR validation:

Identical to #43890 and validated for it.

If this PR is a backport please specify the original PR and why you need to backport that PR. If this PR will be backported please specify to which release cycle the backport is meant for:

Backport of #43890 to 14_0_X release series; it is needed for 2024 operations.

[cmsbuild]

A new Pull Request was created by @mbluj for CMSSW_14_0_X.

It involves the following packages:

• RecoTauTag/RecoTau (reconstruction)

@jfernan2, @mandrenguyen, @cmsbuild can you please review it and eventually sign? Thanks.
@azotz, @mbluj, @missirol this is something you requested to watch as well.
@antoniovilela, @sextonkennedy, @rappoccio you are the release manager for this.

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• Backported from Implementation of TauWPThreshold without need to catch exceptions #43890

[cmsbuild]

cms-bot internal usage

[mandrenguyen]

backport of #43890

[mandrenguyen]

type tau

[mandrenguyen]

please test

[cmsbuild]

+1

Summary: https://cmssdt.cern.ch/SDT/jenkins-artifacts/pull-request-integration/PR-c9c54a/37299/summary.html
COMMIT: c6d18fd
CMSSW: CMSSW_14_0_X_2024-02-07-2300/el8_amd64_gcc12
User test area: For local testing, you can use /cvmfs/cms-ci.cern.ch/week1/cms-sw/cmssw/43909/37299/install.sh to create a dev area with all the needed externals and cmssw changes.

Comparison Summary

Summary:

• You potentially removed 5 lines from the logs
• Reco comparison results: 45 differences found in the comparisons
• DQMHistoTests: Total files compared: 48
• DQMHistoTests: Total histograms compared: 3248626
• DQMHistoTests: Total failures: 3
• DQMHistoTests: Total nulls: 0
• DQMHistoTests: Total successes: 3248601
• DQMHistoTests: Total skipped: 22
• DQMHistoTests: Total Missing objects: 0
• DQMHistoSizes: Histogram memory added: 0.0 KiB( 47 files compared)
• Checked 200 log files, 161 edm output root files, 48 DQM output files
• TriggerResults: no differences found

[mandrenguyen]

backport of #43890

[mandrenguyen]

+reconstruction

[cmsbuild]

This pull request is fully signed and it will be integrated in one of the next CMSSW_14_0_X IBs (tests are also fine) and once validation in the development release cycle CMSSW_14_1_X is complete. This pull request will now be reviewed by the release team before it's merged. @rappoccio, @sextonkennedy, @antoniovilela (and backports should be raised in the release meeting by the corresponding L2)

[antoniovilela]

+1