On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 01:09:41PM +0000, Andreas Vox wrote:
> Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 12:26:40AM +0200, Andreas Vox wrote:
>
> > | + result += "0123456789" [ (i / digit) % 10 ];
> >
> > Why not
> > result += '0' + (i / digit) % 10
> > ?
>
> Because that is my general pattern for translating chars.
> It works in all programming languages and is not limited
> to digits or a character encoding.
This is guaranteed to work in any Standard conforming C or C++ compiler.
> > Apart from that, 'digit' is a misnomer if the thing can be 1000.
>
> The only better name I coukd think of is 'digitPos' ...
>
> > The whole function can be replaced by 'toStr' from src/support/tostr.h.
>
> Grr, and I was searching for an 'itoa' function in the standard library
The canonical C++ way to transform anything into a string is
...
std::ostringstream os;
os << the_thing;
std::string str = os.str();
Our 'toStr' functions are only thin wrappers around this.
Andre'
