Re: How to build a string on the fly, using std::ostringstream?

On Apr 23, 12:14 pm, "Niels Dekker - no return address"
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> wrote:
> Does the Standard Library sup****t creating an std::string by means of
> streaming, without having to declare a *named* ostringstream object?  I
tried
> the following:

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>
> At least, it *seems* to work...   But is it the proper way to do it?


Is your problem that you have other objects of non string types that
you want to append onto a string. In this case you could use
boost::lexical_cast()


std::string s = std::string("i =
").append( boost::lecical_cast<std::string>(i) );

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