Thread: string concat

Hey,

I'm trying to concatenate strings with const chars (letters in the double quotes). I've tried using the + way, the sprintf, and strcat. None work... An example piece below...

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main ( int argc, char *argv[])
{
     string word1 = "this is a string";
     string word2;

     word2 = "hello" + word1 + "\n";

     return 0;
}

***not my actual code, it's just extremely similar to it***

That's what I'm trying to do... can anyone help (i don't want to use c-strings)

Thanks in advance,

Guitarist809

How about something which compiles first?

Originally Posted by Salem

How about something which compiles first?

...?

I don't know if that'll compile, I just wrote it because my code is long, this is just short and simple. Should be almost the same thing though. trying to do string += "text" + anotherstring;

Fixed - code I had was bad in many ways

Originally Posted by Daved

spaces_left is an int. You can't add an int to a string with operator+.

What you want to use is a stringstream. Then you can concatenate everything together with operator<< and get the string from it when you are done.

Yep

Thanks Daved!