string to integer

[Steve]

Hi,

How can I convert a C++ string to an integer and then an integer back to
a string? Is there built-in support for this?

Thanks,

Steve

[John Harrison]

"Steve" <nospam@nopes > wrote in message
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Hi,

How can I convert a C++ string to an integer and then an integer back to
a string? Is there built-in support for this?

Thanks,

Yes lots of support. But what do you mean by string? For C style strings you
can use sprintf (int to string) or sscanf (string to int). For C++ strings
you use stringstream classes.

#include <sstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

// string to int
string some_string;
istringstream buffer(some_str ing);
int some_int;
buffer >> some_int;

// int to string
int some_int;
ostringstream buffer;
buffer << some_int;
string some_string = buffer.str();

You might notice that string streams use exactly the same reading and
writing methods as other streams (cin, cout etc). This is not a coincidence,
and makes string streams useful for a lot of things besides converting
strings to integers.

john

[Martin Gieseking]

Steve <nospam@nopes > wrote:

How can I convert a C++ string to an integer and then an integer back to
a string? Is there built-in support for this?

You can either call the functions atoi and itoa declared in stdlib or use
stringstreams for conversion:

int str2int (const string &str) {
stringstream ss(str);
int n;
ss >> n;
return n;
}

string int2str (int n) {
stringstream ss;
ss << n;
return ss.str();
}

Another possibility is the lexical_cast template from the boost libraries
(www.boost.org).

Martin

[Sumit Rajan]

"Steve" <nospam@nopes > wrote in message
news:40******** @clarion.carno. net.au...

Hi,

How can I convert a C++ string to an integer and then an integer back to
a string? Is there built-in support for this?

Try this link:
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lit...al-issues.html

Regards,
Sumit.

[Alan Johnson]

Martin Gieseking wrote:

Steve <nospam@nopes > wrote:

How can I convert a C++ string to an integer and then an integer back to
a string? Is there built-in support for this?

You can either call the functions atoi and itoa declared in stdlib or use
stringstreams for conversion:

int str2int (const string &str) {
stringstream ss(str);
int n;
ss >> n;
return n;
}

string int2str (int n) {
stringstream ss;
ss << n;
return ss.str();
}

Another possibility is the lexical_cast template from the boost libraries
(www.boost.org).

Martin

To nitpick, the C++ standard doesn't define any function called itoa.
Use sprintf if you want to work with C-style strings and care about
portability.

Alan

[Steve]

John Harrison wrote:

"Steve" <nospam@nopes > wrote in message
news:40******** @clarion.carno. net.au...

Hi,

How can I convert a C++ string to an integer and then an integer back to
a string? Is there built-in support for this?

Thanks,

Yes lots of support. But what do you mean by string? For C style strings you
can use sprintf (int to string) or sscanf (string to int). For C++ strings
you use stringstream classes.

#include <sstream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

// string to int
string some_string;
istringstream buffer(some_str ing);
int some_int;
buffer >> some_int;

// int to string
int some_int;
ostringstream buffer;
buffer << some_int;
string some_string = buffer.str();

You might notice that string streams use exactly the same reading and
writing methods as other streams (cin, cout etc). This is not a coincidence,
and makes string streams useful for a lot of things besides converting
strings to integers.

john

Thanks guys, this helped a lot! :)

Cheers,

Steve

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