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C++ || Snippet – Custom Template “ToString” Function For Primitive Data Types

The following is a custom template “ToString” function which converts the value of a primitive data type (i.e: int, double, long, unsigned, char, etc.) to an std::string. So for example, if you wanted to convert an integer value to an std::string, the following function can do that for you.

This function works by accepting a primitive datatype as a function parameter, then using the std::stringstream class to convert and return an std::string object containing the representation of that incoming function parameter as a sequence of characters.

The code demonstrated on this page is different from the std::to_string function in that this implementation does not require a compiler to have >= C++11 support. This function should work on any compiler.


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The code is heavily commented, so no further insight is necessary. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment below.

Once compiled, you should get this as your output


-1987, 7.28, 12345678910, k, This is a c-string, This is a std::string