How to concatenate a std::string and an int?

Question

I thought this would be really simple but it\'s presenting some difficulties. If I have

std::string name = \"John\";
int age = 21;

How do I

Answer 1

If you have C++11, you can use std::to_string.

Example:

std::string name = "John";
int age = 21;

name += std::to_string(age);

std::cout << name;

Output:

John21

Answer 2

Common Answer: itoa()

This is bad. itoa is non-standard, as pointed out here.

Answer 3

There is a function I wrote, which takes the int number as the parameter, and convert it to a string literal. This function is dependent on another function that converts a single digit to its char equivalent:

char intToChar(int num)
{
    if (num < 10 && num >= 0)
    {
        return num + 48;
        //48 is the number that we add to an integer number to have its character equivalent (see the unsigned ASCII table)
    }
    else
    {
        return '*';
    }
}

string intToString(int num)
{
    int digits = 0, process, single;
    string numString;
    process = num;

    // The following process the number of digits in num
    while (process != 0)
    {
        single  = process % 10; // 'single' now holds the rightmost portion of the int
        process = (process - single)/10;
        // Take out the rightmost number of the int (it's a zero in this portion of the int), then divide it by 10
        // The above combination eliminates the rightmost portion of the int
        digits ++;
    }

    process = num;

    // Fill the numString with '*' times digits
    for (int i = 0; i < digits; i++)
    {
        numString += '*';
    }


    for (int i = digits-1; i >= 0; i--)
    {
        single = process % 10;
        numString[i] = intToChar ( single);
        process = (process - single) / 10;
    }

    return numString;
}

Answer 4

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
using namespace std;
string itos(int i) // convert int to string
{
    stringstream s;
    s << i;
    return s.str();
}

Shamelessly stolen from http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html.

Answer 5

#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>

std::ostringstream o;
o << name << age;
std::cout << o.str();