Easiest way to convert int to string in C++

Question

What is the easiest way to convert from int to equivalent string in C++. I am aware of two methods. Is there any easier way?

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Answer 1

It's rather easy to add some syntactical sugar that allows one to compose strings on the fly in a stream-like way

#include 
#include 

struct strmake {
    std::stringstream s;
    template  strmake& operator << (const T& x) {
        s << x; return *this;
    }   
    operator std::string() {return s.str();}
};

Now you may append whatever you want (provided that an operator << (std::ostream& ..) is defined for it) to strmake() and use it in place of an std::string.

Example:

#include 

int main() {
    std::string x =
      strmake() << "Current time is " << 5+5 << ":" << 5*5 << " GST";
    std::cout << x << std::endl;
}