itoa()

Hello-
I'm trying to figure out how to render the position of my mouse on-screen.
Is there anyway to convert an integer to a string? I don't want to use char[].

Code:

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static std::string mousex, mousey, text;
itoa(mouse.GetX(), mousex, 10);
itoa(mouse.GetY(), mousey, 10);

strcat(text, "X: ");
strcat(text, mousex);
strcat(text, " Y: ");
strcat(text, mousey);

TextOut(hDC, 50, 50, text, strlen(text));

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It says C++ at the top of the forum, so I will suggest using a stringstream.

Code:

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std::stringstream message;
message << "(" << x << ", " << y << ")";
TextOut(hDC, 50, 50, message.str().c_str(), message.str().length());

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Not compiled because I'm not quite that bored, but should be close.

It works out great, thanks!
I have another problem though. All of this code is inside a timer event function, so it all repeats. The string now looks like: X: 400 Y: 300X: 400 Y: 300X: 400 Y: 300X: 400 Y: 300X: 400 Y: 300X: 400 Y: 300X: 400 Y: 300.... and so on. Is there any way to clear the string? I've tried text.str().clear() but it doesn't seem to work.

Any help is appreciated!

EDIT:

Never mind! I googled the problem and found the solution. I used .str("")