C++ create string of text and variables

Question

I\'m trying to do something very simple and yet, after an hour of so of searching a I can\'t find a suitable answer so I must be missing something fairly obvious.

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Answer 1

std::string var = "sometext" + somevar + "sometext" + somevar;

This doesn't work because the additions are performed left-to-right and "sometext" (the first one) is just a const char *. It has no operator+ to call. The simplest fix is this:

std::string var = std::string("sometext") + somevar + "sometext" + somevar;

Now, the first parameter in the left-to-right list of + operations is a std::string, which has an operator+(const char *). That operator produces a string, which makes the rest of the chain work.

You can also make all the operations be on var, which is a std::string and so has all the necessary operators:

var = "sometext";
var += somevar;
var += "sometext";
var += somevar;