add each int in a vector<int> to a string - c++

Question

for (vector<int>::const_iterator i = vec.begin(); i != vec.end(); ++i)
{
int number = *i;
char* c;
itoa(number, c, 10);
result += c;
}
std::cout << result << std::endl;
I'm trying to convert each int in "vec" to a char and adding it to a string but I just get a compiler error. what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You can use the std::to_string available in C++11:
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
int main()
{
std::vector<int> vec;
for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
{
vec.push_back(i);
}
std::string result;
for (std::vector<int>::const_iterator i = vec.begin(); i != vec.end(); ++i)
{
result += std::to_string(*i);
}
std::cout << result << std::endl;
}

Answer 2

Combining sounds like a job for std::accumulate.
#include <iostream>
#include <numeric>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
auto main() -> int
{
const std::vector<int> vec{ 1, 2, 3 };
const std::string result = std::accumulate(vec.begin(), vec.end(), std::string(),
[](const std::string& s, const int value)
{
return s + std::to_string(value);
});
std::cout << result << std::endl;
}

Answer 3

There's an error in your code:
You call itoa() with a non-initialized char pointer. That's bad, because itoa() needs a valid buffer! Besides, itoa() is not part of the c++ standard.
Better do leave char* behind and do it with more modern C++ features, especially std::stringstream, which is a string builder, which is powerful in conversion (and also often faster than the string += operator). It builds a string by pushing elements to it with the << operator (these can be string literals, strings, numbers of all kinds), it can be extended via external operators for own data types, and it also has a lot of formatting options (e.g. number of digits, hex etc), and returns its built string with the method str().
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
int main()
{
std::vector<int> vec;
for (int i = 0;i<100;i++)
vec.push_back(i);
std::stringstream ss;
for (auto& number : vec)
ss << number;
std::cout << ss.str() << std::endl;
}