stringstream simple problem, simple solution?

[jjblt206]

Hi,

I have a simple nit-picky question. It would be nice for a stringstream to have a member function which returns a C style string (just like a string does) so I could do this,

stringstream ss;
ss << "Etc...";
ss.c_str()

instead of this,

stringstream ss;
ss << "Etc...";
ss.str().c_str()

Is it possible to do something like this?

[weaknessforcats]

Did you try this?

stringstream can present itself as a string using the str() member function. That member function returns a string. A string can present itself as a C-string by using the c_str() method.

So, ss.str().c_str( ) should work fine.