Thread: concatination of string problem

in my c++ course we have started classes. I created a class Date which has a default constructer

Code:

Date::date(int, int,int) that takes mm-dd-yyyy.

The private data is

Code:

 int intmonth, day, year;

The function

Code:

string Date::toString() const

is to convert the int date to a string date. This is obviously simple, we only have to change the mm to a string, using an enumertion class

Code:

Month{January=1, ....}
Month month;

Now.. this functon must return a string. Therefore, the string must consist of

Code:

string Returnstring;
Returnstring =  month(intmonth) + " " + day + "st/nd/rd/th" + ", " + year;
return  Returnstring;

My problem: the concationation of this string. I cannot just output to the string, my teacher asked for the function to return a string. In the driver it has

Code:

cout << d1.toString();

I have read about the itoa function.. but i get the same prototype error as everyone else, and i have tried every hint online that have yeildd no results. I have heard of a function in class ostream in standard library? Does anyone know a good way to convert these integers to strings so i can do the concatination.

I use pico, and the sun compiler if it helps..

Thank you