From: Martin Ambuhl <mambuhl AT earthlink DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: s((tr(ing))stream)
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 11:25:20 -0400
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Peter Claessens wrote:
> 
> <strstream> is non-ANSI, correct? Is there somewhere an <sstream> file
> available for djgpp? Or should I move to egcs?

<strstream>, while deprecated, is very much part of standard C++.  "Deprecated"
means that you should not rely on it to be in future standards.  So far, I
haven't seen a <sstream> for djgpp.

> 
> Am I right to state that using stringstreams is the only convenient way
> to convert floating-type numbers to a string representation in ANSI C++,
> or am I overlooking some function?

You are not right.  Not only can you use <strstream>, but you can always fall
back on ssprintf().


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