I'm trying to convert std::string to float/double.
I tried:
std::string num = "0.6";
double temp = (double)atof(num.c_str());
But it always returns zero. Any other ways?
std::string num = "0.6";
double temp = ::atof(num.c_str());
Does it for me, it is a valid C++ syntax to convert a string to a double.
You can do it with the stringstream or boost::lexical_cast but those come with a performance penalty.
Ahaha you have a Qt project ...
QString winOpacity("0.6");
double temp = winOpacity.toDouble();
Extra note:
If the input data is a const char*, QByteArray::toDouble will be faster.
The Standard Library (C++11) offers the desired functionality with std::stod :
std::string s = "0.6"
std::wstring ws = "0.7"
double d = std::stod(s);
double dw = std::stod(ws);
Generally for most other basic types, see <string>. There are some new features for C strings, too. See <stdlib.h>
Lexical cast is very nice.
#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using std::endl;
using std::cout;
using std::string;
using boost::lexical_cast;
int main() {
string str = "0.6";
double dub = lexical_cast<double>(str);
cout << dub << endl;
}
You can use std::stringstream:
#include <sstream>
#include <string>
template<typename T>
T StringToNumber(const std::string& numberAsString)
{
T valor;
std::stringstream stream(numberAsString);
stream >> valor;
if (stream.fail()) {
std::runtime_error e(numberAsString);
throw e;
}
return valor;
}
Usage:
double number= StringToNumber<double>("0.6");
Yes, with a lexical cast. Use a stringstream and the << operator, or use Boost, they've already implemented it.
Your own version could look like:
template<typename to, typename from>to lexical_cast(from const &x) {
std::stringstream os;
to ret;
os << x;
os >> ret;
return ret;
}
You can use boost lexical cast:
#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
string v("0.6");
double dd = boost::lexical_cast<double>(v);
cout << dd << endl;
Note: boost::lexical_cast throws exception so you should be prepared to deal with it when you pass invalid value, try passing string("xxx")
If you don't want to drag in all of boost, go with strtod(3) from <cstdlib> - it already returns a double.
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cstring>
#include <cstdlib>
using namespace std;
int main() {
std::string num = "0.6";
double temp = ::strtod(num.c_str(), 0);
cout << num << " " << temp << endl;
return 0;
}
Outputs:
$ g++ -o s s.cc
$ ./s
0.6 0.6
$
Why atof() doesn't work ... what platform/compiler are you on?
I had the same problem in Linux
double s2f(string str)
{
istringstream buffer(str);
double temp;
buffer >> temp;
return temp;
}
it works.
With C++17, you can use std::from_chars, which is a lighter weight faster alternative to std::stof and std::stod. It doesn't involve any memory allocation or look at the locale, and it is non-throwing.
The std::from_chars function returns a value of type from_chars_result, which is basically a struct with two fields:
struct from_chars_result {
const char* ptr;
std::errc ec;
};
By inspecting ec we can tell if the conversion was successful:
#include <iostream>
#include <charconv>
int main()
{
const std::string str { "12345678901234.123456" };
double value = 0.0;
auto [p, ec] = std::from_chars(str.data(), str.data() + str.size(), value);
if (ec != std::errc()) {
std::cout << "Couldn't convert value";
}
return 0;
}
NB: you need a fairly up-to-date compiler (e.g. gcc11) for std::from_chars to work with floating point types.
double myAtof ( string &num){
double tmp;
sscanf ( num.c_str(), "%lf" , &tmp);
return tmp;
}
The C++ 11 way is to use std::stod and std::to_string. Both work in Visual Studio 11.
This answer is backing up litb in your comments. I have profound suspicions you are just not displaying the result properly.
I had the exact same thing happen to me once. I spent a whole day trying to figure out why I was getting a bad value into a 64-bit int, only to discover that printf was ignoring the second byte. You can't just pass a 64-bit value into printf like its an int.
As to why atof() isn't working in the original question: the fact that it's cast to double makes me suspicious. The code shouldn't compile without #include <stdlib.h>, but if the cast was added to solve a compile warning, then atof() is not correctly declared. If the compiler assumes atof() returns an int, casting it will solve the conversion warning, but it will not cause the return value to be recognized as a double.
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string>
...
std::string num = "0.6";
double temp = atof(num.c_str());
should work without warnings.
Rather than dragging Boost into the equation, you could keep your string (temporarily) as a char[] and use sprintf().
But of course if you're using Boost anyway, it's really not too much of an issue.
You don't want Boost lexical_cast for string <-> floating point anyway. That subset of use cases is the only set for which boost consistently is worse than the older functions- and they basically concentrated all their failure there, because their own performance results show a 20-25X SLOWER performance than using sscanf and printf for such conversions.
Google it yourself. boost::lexical_cast can handle something like 50 conversions and if you exclude the ones involving floating point #s its as good or better as the obvious alternatives (with the added advantage of being having a single API for all those operations). But bring in floats and its like the Titanic hitting an iceberg in terms of performance.
The old, dedicated str->double functions can all do 10000 parses in something like 30 ms (or better). lexical_cast takes something like 650 ms to do the same job.
My Problem:
Locale independent string to double (decimal separator always '.')
Error detection if string conversion fails
My solution (uses the Windows function _wcstod_l):
// string to convert. Note: decimal seperator is ',' here
std::wstring str = L"1,101";
// Use this for error detection
wchar_t* stopString;
// Create a locale for "C". Thus a '.' is expected as decimal separator
double dbl = _wcstod_l(str.c_str(), &stopString, _create_locale(LC_ALL, "C"));
if (wcslen(stopString) != 0)
{
// ... error handling ... we'll run into this because of the separator
}
HTH ... took me pretty long to get to this solution. And I still have the feeling that I don't know enough about string localization and stuff...
Related
I have a simple variable:
float t = 30.2f;
How do I add it to a string?
char* g = "Temperature is " + h?
Any guaranteed way (I don't have Boost for instance, and unsure of what version of c++ I have) I can get this to work on a microcontroller?
For simple cases, you can just use the std::string class and the std::to_string function, which have both been part of C++ for a long time.
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
float t = 30.2;
std::string r = "Temperature is " + std::to_string(t);
std::cout << r;
}
However, std::to_string doesn't give you much control over the formatting, so if you need to specify a field width or a number of digits after the decimal point or something like that, it would be better to see lorro's answer.
If you have an incomplete implementation of the C++ standard library on your microcontroller so you can't use the functions above, or maybe you just want to avoid dynamic memory allocation, try this code (which is valid in C or C++):
float t = 30.2;
char buffer[80];
sprintf(buffer, "Temperature is %f.", t);
Note that buffer must be large enough to guarantee there will never be a buffer overflow, and failing to make it large enough could cause crashes and security issues.
std::ostringstream oss;
oss << t;
std::string s = "Temperature is " + oss.str();
Then you can use either the string or the c_str() of it (as const char*).
If, for some reason, you don't have standard library, you can also use snprintf() et. al. (printf-variants), but then you need to do the buffer management yourself.
For the sake of completeness, C++20 introduces std::format for fluent string formatting of this sort:
#include <format>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
int main() {
float t = 30.2f;
std::string s = std::format("Temperature is {}!\n", t);
std::cout << s;
}
Do note that compiler support for the format library is still underway. GCC does not yet support it, and Clang only has experimental support1 in 14.0+.
1 requires LLVM to be compiled with -DLIBCXX_ENABLE_INCOMPLETE_FEATURES=ON
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I was wondering if there was an alternative to itoa() for converting an integer to a string because when I run it in visual Studio I get warnings, and when I try to build my program under Linux, I get a compilation error.
In C++11 you can use std::to_string:
#include <string>
std::string s = std::to_string(5);
If you're working with prior to C++11, you could use C++ streams:
#include <sstream>
int i = 5;
std::string s;
std::stringstream out;
out << i;
s = out.str();
Taken from http://notfaq.wordpress.com/2006/08/30/c-convert-int-to-string/
boost::lexical_cast works pretty well.
#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
std::string foo = boost::lexical_cast<std::string>(argc);
}
Archeology
itoa was a non-standard helper function designed to complement the atoi standard function, and probably hiding a sprintf (Most its features can be implemented in terms of sprintf): http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdlib/itoa.html
The C Way
Use sprintf. Or snprintf. Or whatever tool you find.
Despite the fact some functions are not in the standard, as rightly mentioned by "onebyone" in one of his comments, most compiler will offer you an alternative (e.g. Visual C++ has its own _snprintf you can typedef to snprintf if you need it).
The C++ way.
Use the C++ streams (in the current case std::stringstream (or even the deprecated std::strstream, as proposed by Herb Sutter in one of his books, because it's somewhat faster).
Conclusion
You're in C++, which means that you can choose the way you want it:
The faster way (i.e. the C way), but you should be sure the code is a bottleneck in your application (premature optimizations are evil, etc.) and that your code is safely encapsulated to avoid risking buffer overruns.
The safer way (i.e., the C++ way), if you know this part of the code is not critical, so better be sure this part of the code won't break at random moments because someone mistook a size or a pointer (which happens in real life, like... yesterday, on my computer, because someone thought it "cool" to use the faster way without really needing it).
Try sprintf():
char str[12];
int num = 3;
sprintf(str, "%d", num); // str now contains "3"
sprintf() is like printf() but outputs to a string.
Also, as Parappa mentioned in the comments, you might want to use snprintf() to stop a buffer overflow from occuring (where the number you're converting doesn't fit the size of your string.) It works like this:
snprintf(str, sizeof(str), "%d", num);
Behind the scenes, lexical_cast does this:
std::stringstream str;
str << myint;
std::string result;
str >> result;
If you don't want to "drag in" boost for this, then using the above is a good solution.
We can define our own iota function in c++ as:
string itoa(int a)
{
string ss=""; //create empty string
while(a)
{
int x=a%10;
a/=10;
char i='0';
i=i+x;
ss=i+ss; //append new character at the front of the string!
}
return ss;
}
Don't forget to #include <string>.
С++11 finally resolves this providing std::to_string.
Also boost::lexical_cast is handy tool for older compilers.
I use these templates
template <typename T> string toStr(T tmp)
{
ostringstream out;
out << tmp;
return out.str();
}
template <typename T> T strTo(string tmp)
{
T output;
istringstream in(tmp);
in >> output;
return output;
}
Try Boost.Format or FastFormat, both high-quality C++ libraries:
int i = 10;
std::string result;
WIth Boost.Format
result = str(boost::format("%1%", i));
or FastFormat
fastformat::fmt(result, "{0}", i);
fastformat::write(result, i);
Obviously they both do a lot more than a simple conversion of a single integer
You can actually convert anything to a string with one cleverly written template function. This code example uses a loop to create subdirectories in a Win-32 system. The string concatenation operator, operator+, is used to concatenate a root with a suffix to generate directory names. The suffix is created by converting the loop control variable, i, to a C++ string, using the template function, and concatenating that with another string.
//Mark Renslow, Globe University, Minnesota School of Business, Utah Career College
//C++ instructor and Network Dean of Information Technology
#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream> // string stream
#include <direct.h>
using namespace std;
string intToString(int x)
{
/**************************************/
/* This function is similar to itoa() */
/* "integer to alpha", a non-standard */
/* C language function. It takes an */
/* integer as input and as output, */
/* returns a C++ string. */
/* itoa() returned a C-string (null- */
/* terminated) */
/* This function is not needed because*/
/* the following template function */
/* does it all */
/**************************************/
string r;
stringstream s;
s << x;
r = s.str();
return r;
}
template <class T>
string toString( T argument)
{
/**************************************/
/* This template shows the power of */
/* C++ templates. This function will */
/* convert anything to a string! */
/* Precondition: */
/* operator<< is defined for type T */
/**************************************/
string r;
stringstream s;
s << argument;
r = s.str();
return r;
}
int main( )
{
string s;
cout << "What directory would you like me to make?";
cin >> s;
try
{
mkdir(s.c_str());
}
catch (exception& e)
{
cerr << e.what( ) << endl;
}
chdir(s.c_str());
//Using a loop and string concatenation to make several sub-directories
for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
s = "Dir_";
s = s + toString(i);
mkdir(s.c_str());
}
system("PAUSE");
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
Allocate a string of sufficient length, then use snprintf.
int number = 123;
stringstream = s;
s << number;
cout << ss.str() << endl;
I wrote this thread-safe function some time ago, and am very happy with the results and feel the algorithm is lightweight and lean, with performance that is about 3X the standard MSVC _itoa() function.
Here's the link. Optimal Base-10 only itoa() function? Performance is at least 10X that of sprintf(). The benchmark is also the function's QA test, as follows.
start = clock();
for (int i = LONG_MIN; i < LONG_MAX; i++) {
if (i != atoi(_i32toa(buff, (int32_t)i))) {
printf("\nError for %i", i);
}
if (!i) printf("\nAt zero");
}
printf("\nElapsed time was %f milliseconds", (double)clock() - (double)(start));
There are some silly suggestions made about using the caller's storage that would leave the result floating somewhere in a buffer in the caller's address space. Ignore them. The code I listed works perfectly, as the benchmark/QA code demonstrates.
I believe this code is lean enough to use in an embedded environment. YMMV, of course.
The best answer, IMO, is the function provided here:
http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~slowe/cpp/itoa.html
It mimics the non-ANSI function provided by many libs.
char* itoa(int value, char* result, int base);
It's also lightning fast and optimizes well under -O3, and the reason you're not using c++ string_format() ... or sprintf is that they are too slow, right?
If you are interested in fast as well as safe integer to string conversion method and not limited to the standard library, I can recommend the format_int method from the {fmt} library:
fmt::format_int(42).str(); // convert to std::string
fmt::format_int(42).c_str(); // convert and get as a C string
// (mind the lifetime, same as std::string::c_str())
According to the integer to string conversion benchmarks from Boost Karma, this method several times faster than glibc's sprintf or std::stringstream. It is even faster than Boost Karma's own int_generator as was confirm by an independent benchmark.
Disclaimer: I'm the author of this library.
Note that all of the stringstream methods may involve locking around the use of the locale object for formatting. This may be something to be wary of if you're using this conversion from multiple threads...
See here for more. Convert a number to a string with specified length in C++
On Windows CE derived platforms, there are no iostreams by default. The way to go there is preferaby with the _itoa<> family, usually _itow<> (since most string stuff are Unicode there anyway).
Most of the above suggestions technically aren't C++, they're C solutions.
Look into the use of std::stringstream.
How to add or subtract the value of string? For example:
std::string number_string;
std::string total;
cout << "Enter value to add";
std::getline(std::cin, number_string;
total = number_string + number_string;
cout << total;
This just append the string so this won't work. I know I can use int data type but I need to use string.
You can use atoi(number_string.c_str()) to convert the string to an integer.
If you are concerned about properly handling non-numeric input, strtol is a better choice, albeit a little more wordy. http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdlib/strtol/
You will want to work with integers the entire time, and then convert to a std::string at the very end.
Here is a solution that works if you have a C++11 capable compiler:
#include <string>
std::string sum(std::string const & old_total, std::string const & input) {
int const total = std::stoi(old_total);
int const addend = std::stoi(input);
return std::to_string(total + addend);
}
Otherwise, use boost:
#include <string>
#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
std::string sum(std::string const & old_total, std::string const & input) {
int const total = boost::lexical_cast<int>(old_total);
int const addend = boost::lexical_cast<int>(input);
return boost::lexical_cast<std::string>(total + addend);
}
The function first converts each std::string into an int (a step that you will have to do, no matter what approach you take), then adds them, and then converts it back to a std::string. In other languages, like PHP, that try to guess what you mean and add them, they are doing this under the hood, anyway.
Both of these solutions have a number of advantages. They are faster, they report their errors with exceptions rather than silently appearing to work, and they don't require extra intermediary conversions.
The Boost solution does require a bit of work to set up, but it is definitely worth it. Boost is probably the most important tool of any C++ developer's work, except maybe the compiler. You will need it for other things because they have already done top-notch work solving many problems that you will have in the future, so it is best for you to start getting experience with it. The work required to install Boost is much less than the time you will save by using it.
I'm trying to convert std::string to float/double.
I tried:
std::string num = "0.6";
double temp = (double)atof(num.c_str());
But it always returns zero. Any other ways?
std::string num = "0.6";
double temp = ::atof(num.c_str());
Does it for me, it is a valid C++ syntax to convert a string to a double.
You can do it with the stringstream or boost::lexical_cast but those come with a performance penalty.
Ahaha you have a Qt project ...
QString winOpacity("0.6");
double temp = winOpacity.toDouble();
Extra note:
If the input data is a const char*, QByteArray::toDouble will be faster.
The Standard Library (C++11) offers the desired functionality with std::stod :
std::string s = "0.6"
std::wstring ws = "0.7"
double d = std::stod(s);
double dw = std::stod(ws);
Generally for most other basic types, see <string>. There are some new features for C strings, too. See <stdlib.h>
Lexical cast is very nice.
#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using std::endl;
using std::cout;
using std::string;
using boost::lexical_cast;
int main() {
string str = "0.6";
double dub = lexical_cast<double>(str);
cout << dub << endl;
}
You can use std::stringstream:
#include <sstream>
#include <string>
template<typename T>
T StringToNumber(const std::string& numberAsString)
{
T valor;
std::stringstream stream(numberAsString);
stream >> valor;
if (stream.fail()) {
std::runtime_error e(numberAsString);
throw e;
}
return valor;
}
Usage:
double number= StringToNumber<double>("0.6");
Yes, with a lexical cast. Use a stringstream and the << operator, or use Boost, they've already implemented it.
Your own version could look like:
template<typename to, typename from>to lexical_cast(from const &x) {
std::stringstream os;
to ret;
os << x;
os >> ret;
return ret;
}
You can use boost lexical cast:
#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
string v("0.6");
double dd = boost::lexical_cast<double>(v);
cout << dd << endl;
Note: boost::lexical_cast throws exception so you should be prepared to deal with it when you pass invalid value, try passing string("xxx")
If you don't want to drag in all of boost, go with strtod(3) from <cstdlib> - it already returns a double.
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cstring>
#include <cstdlib>
using namespace std;
int main() {
std::string num = "0.6";
double temp = ::strtod(num.c_str(), 0);
cout << num << " " << temp << endl;
return 0;
}
Outputs:
$ g++ -o s s.cc
$ ./s
0.6 0.6
$
Why atof() doesn't work ... what platform/compiler are you on?
I had the same problem in Linux
double s2f(string str)
{
istringstream buffer(str);
double temp;
buffer >> temp;
return temp;
}
it works.
With C++17, you can use std::from_chars, which is a lighter weight faster alternative to std::stof and std::stod. It doesn't involve any memory allocation or look at the locale, and it is non-throwing.
The std::from_chars function returns a value of type from_chars_result, which is basically a struct with two fields:
struct from_chars_result {
const char* ptr;
std::errc ec;
};
By inspecting ec we can tell if the conversion was successful:
#include <iostream>
#include <charconv>
int main()
{
const std::string str { "12345678901234.123456" };
double value = 0.0;
auto [p, ec] = std::from_chars(str.data(), str.data() + str.size(), value);
if (ec != std::errc()) {
std::cout << "Couldn't convert value";
}
return 0;
}
NB: you need a fairly up-to-date compiler (e.g. gcc11) for std::from_chars to work with floating point types.
double myAtof ( string &num){
double tmp;
sscanf ( num.c_str(), "%lf" , &tmp);
return tmp;
}
The C++ 11 way is to use std::stod and std::to_string. Both work in Visual Studio 11.
This answer is backing up litb in your comments. I have profound suspicions you are just not displaying the result properly.
I had the exact same thing happen to me once. I spent a whole day trying to figure out why I was getting a bad value into a 64-bit int, only to discover that printf was ignoring the second byte. You can't just pass a 64-bit value into printf like its an int.
As to why atof() isn't working in the original question: the fact that it's cast to double makes me suspicious. The code shouldn't compile without #include <stdlib.h>, but if the cast was added to solve a compile warning, then atof() is not correctly declared. If the compiler assumes atof() returns an int, casting it will solve the conversion warning, but it will not cause the return value to be recognized as a double.
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string>
...
std::string num = "0.6";
double temp = atof(num.c_str());
should work without warnings.
Rather than dragging Boost into the equation, you could keep your string (temporarily) as a char[] and use sprintf().
But of course if you're using Boost anyway, it's really not too much of an issue.
You don't want Boost lexical_cast for string <-> floating point anyway. That subset of use cases is the only set for which boost consistently is worse than the older functions- and they basically concentrated all their failure there, because their own performance results show a 20-25X SLOWER performance than using sscanf and printf for such conversions.
Google it yourself. boost::lexical_cast can handle something like 50 conversions and if you exclude the ones involving floating point #s its as good or better as the obvious alternatives (with the added advantage of being having a single API for all those operations). But bring in floats and its like the Titanic hitting an iceberg in terms of performance.
The old, dedicated str->double functions can all do 10000 parses in something like 30 ms (or better). lexical_cast takes something like 650 ms to do the same job.
My Problem:
Locale independent string to double (decimal separator always '.')
Error detection if string conversion fails
My solution (uses the Windows function _wcstod_l):
// string to convert. Note: decimal seperator is ',' here
std::wstring str = L"1,101";
// Use this for error detection
wchar_t* stopString;
// Create a locale for "C". Thus a '.' is expected as decimal separator
double dbl = _wcstod_l(str.c_str(), &stopString, _create_locale(LC_ALL, "C"));
if (wcslen(stopString) != 0)
{
// ... error handling ... we'll run into this because of the separator
}
HTH ... took me pretty long to get to this solution. And I still have the feeling that I don't know enough about string localization and stuff...
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I was wondering if there was an alternative to itoa() for converting an integer to a string because when I run it in visual Studio I get warnings, and when I try to build my program under Linux, I get a compilation error.
In C++11 you can use std::to_string:
#include <string>
std::string s = std::to_string(5);
If you're working with prior to C++11, you could use C++ streams:
#include <sstream>
int i = 5;
std::string s;
std::stringstream out;
out << i;
s = out.str();
Taken from http://notfaq.wordpress.com/2006/08/30/c-convert-int-to-string/
boost::lexical_cast works pretty well.
#include <boost/lexical_cast.hpp>
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
std::string foo = boost::lexical_cast<std::string>(argc);
}
Archeology
itoa was a non-standard helper function designed to complement the atoi standard function, and probably hiding a sprintf (Most its features can be implemented in terms of sprintf): http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdlib/itoa.html
The C Way
Use sprintf. Or snprintf. Or whatever tool you find.
Despite the fact some functions are not in the standard, as rightly mentioned by "onebyone" in one of his comments, most compiler will offer you an alternative (e.g. Visual C++ has its own _snprintf you can typedef to snprintf if you need it).
The C++ way.
Use the C++ streams (in the current case std::stringstream (or even the deprecated std::strstream, as proposed by Herb Sutter in one of his books, because it's somewhat faster).
Conclusion
You're in C++, which means that you can choose the way you want it:
The faster way (i.e. the C way), but you should be sure the code is a bottleneck in your application (premature optimizations are evil, etc.) and that your code is safely encapsulated to avoid risking buffer overruns.
The safer way (i.e., the C++ way), if you know this part of the code is not critical, so better be sure this part of the code won't break at random moments because someone mistook a size or a pointer (which happens in real life, like... yesterday, on my computer, because someone thought it "cool" to use the faster way without really needing it).
Try sprintf():
char str[12];
int num = 3;
sprintf(str, "%d", num); // str now contains "3"
sprintf() is like printf() but outputs to a string.
Also, as Parappa mentioned in the comments, you might want to use snprintf() to stop a buffer overflow from occuring (where the number you're converting doesn't fit the size of your string.) It works like this:
snprintf(str, sizeof(str), "%d", num);
Behind the scenes, lexical_cast does this:
std::stringstream str;
str << myint;
std::string result;
str >> result;
If you don't want to "drag in" boost for this, then using the above is a good solution.
We can define our own iota function in c++ as:
string itoa(int a)
{
string ss=""; //create empty string
while(a)
{
int x=a%10;
a/=10;
char i='0';
i=i+x;
ss=i+ss; //append new character at the front of the string!
}
return ss;
}
Don't forget to #include <string>.
С++11 finally resolves this providing std::to_string.
Also boost::lexical_cast is handy tool for older compilers.
I use these templates
template <typename T> string toStr(T tmp)
{
ostringstream out;
out << tmp;
return out.str();
}
template <typename T> T strTo(string tmp)
{
T output;
istringstream in(tmp);
in >> output;
return output;
}
Try Boost.Format or FastFormat, both high-quality C++ libraries:
int i = 10;
std::string result;
WIth Boost.Format
result = str(boost::format("%1%", i));
or FastFormat
fastformat::fmt(result, "{0}", i);
fastformat::write(result, i);
Obviously they both do a lot more than a simple conversion of a single integer
You can actually convert anything to a string with one cleverly written template function. This code example uses a loop to create subdirectories in a Win-32 system. The string concatenation operator, operator+, is used to concatenate a root with a suffix to generate directory names. The suffix is created by converting the loop control variable, i, to a C++ string, using the template function, and concatenating that with another string.
//Mark Renslow, Globe University, Minnesota School of Business, Utah Career College
//C++ instructor and Network Dean of Information Technology
#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream> // string stream
#include <direct.h>
using namespace std;
string intToString(int x)
{
/**************************************/
/* This function is similar to itoa() */
/* "integer to alpha", a non-standard */
/* C language function. It takes an */
/* integer as input and as output, */
/* returns a C++ string. */
/* itoa() returned a C-string (null- */
/* terminated) */
/* This function is not needed because*/
/* the following template function */
/* does it all */
/**************************************/
string r;
stringstream s;
s << x;
r = s.str();
return r;
}
template <class T>
string toString( T argument)
{
/**************************************/
/* This template shows the power of */
/* C++ templates. This function will */
/* convert anything to a string! */
/* Precondition: */
/* operator<< is defined for type T */
/**************************************/
string r;
stringstream s;
s << argument;
r = s.str();
return r;
}
int main( )
{
string s;
cout << "What directory would you like me to make?";
cin >> s;
try
{
mkdir(s.c_str());
}
catch (exception& e)
{
cerr << e.what( ) << endl;
}
chdir(s.c_str());
//Using a loop and string concatenation to make several sub-directories
for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
s = "Dir_";
s = s + toString(i);
mkdir(s.c_str());
}
system("PAUSE");
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
Allocate a string of sufficient length, then use snprintf.
int number = 123;
stringstream = s;
s << number;
cout << ss.str() << endl;
I wrote this thread-safe function some time ago, and am very happy with the results and feel the algorithm is lightweight and lean, with performance that is about 3X the standard MSVC _itoa() function.
Here's the link. Optimal Base-10 only itoa() function? Performance is at least 10X that of sprintf(). The benchmark is also the function's QA test, as follows.
start = clock();
for (int i = LONG_MIN; i < LONG_MAX; i++) {
if (i != atoi(_i32toa(buff, (int32_t)i))) {
printf("\nError for %i", i);
}
if (!i) printf("\nAt zero");
}
printf("\nElapsed time was %f milliseconds", (double)clock() - (double)(start));
There are some silly suggestions made about using the caller's storage that would leave the result floating somewhere in a buffer in the caller's address space. Ignore them. The code I listed works perfectly, as the benchmark/QA code demonstrates.
I believe this code is lean enough to use in an embedded environment. YMMV, of course.
The best answer, IMO, is the function provided here:
http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/~slowe/cpp/itoa.html
It mimics the non-ANSI function provided by many libs.
char* itoa(int value, char* result, int base);
It's also lightning fast and optimizes well under -O3, and the reason you're not using c++ string_format() ... or sprintf is that they are too slow, right?
If you are interested in fast as well as safe integer to string conversion method and not limited to the standard library, I can recommend the format_int method from the {fmt} library:
fmt::format_int(42).str(); // convert to std::string
fmt::format_int(42).c_str(); // convert and get as a C string
// (mind the lifetime, same as std::string::c_str())
According to the integer to string conversion benchmarks from Boost Karma, this method several times faster than glibc's sprintf or std::stringstream. It is even faster than Boost Karma's own int_generator as was confirm by an independent benchmark.
Disclaimer: I'm the author of this library.
Note that all of the stringstream methods may involve locking around the use of the locale object for formatting. This may be something to be wary of if you're using this conversion from multiple threads...
See here for more. Convert a number to a string with specified length in C++
On Windows CE derived platforms, there are no iostreams by default. The way to go there is preferaby with the _itoa<> family, usually _itow<> (since most string stuff are Unicode there anyway).
Most of the above suggestions technically aren't C++, they're C solutions.
Look into the use of std::stringstream.