[gameprogrammer] Re: How to assign a numeric variable to an std::string?

["Alan Wolfe" <alan.wolfe@gmail.com>]

I am a fan of sprintf and char * arrays as well so am not certain, but
i believe what you are looking for is string.format (:

On 1/11/08, Kevin Jenkins <gameprogrammer@rakkar.org> wrote:
> float f=5;
> std::string myStr;
> myStr << f;
>
> It doesn't work.
>
> Error   1       error C2784: 'std::basic_ostream<_Elem,_Traits> &std::operator
> <<(std::basic_ostream<_Elem,_Traits> &,const
> std::basic_string<_Elem,_Traits,_Alloc> &)' : could not deduce
> template argument for 'std::basic_ostream<_Elem,_Traits> &' from
> 'std::string'
>
> So how do I do this?  E.G.
> sprintf(str, "%f", f);
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