[type] to string

[paddy]

I am working mostly with CEGUI and strings right now, but I am having trouble figuring out the best way to get numbers and other datatypes into strings

I want to be able to do:

setStatusText("Setting the text here: "+ img->getHeight());

and have the function setup as

setStatusText(const CEGUI::String &txt) { ...}


I have tried lots of stuff but I just can't seem to find the right way to do this, its very basic I am sure, but I could use some help.

I am pretty sure if I can figure out the proper way to get it into a standard string I can go from that to CEGUIL::String but whatever is the most proper way is what I would like to use.

[temas]

You'll probably want to use a string stream from <sstream>

An example:

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ostringstream os;

os << "Setting the text here: " << img->getHeight();

setStatusText(os.str());

[paddy]

works great thanks!

[epopov]

boost (http://www.boost.org) also has some useful string util functions:

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setStatusText(boost::str(boost::format("Setting the text here:%d") % img->getHeight()));

It also works with more than one parameter:

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boost::str(boost::format("Height is %d and width %d") % img->getHeight() % img->getWidth()));