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Hello

I am using ostringstream and want to write some ascii characters (not all
alphanumeric) to the stream.

I can do this sort of thing:

int value = 9;
oss << value;

and that works fine.

But I have some ascii values as hex - eg 0xa1. I can't do this:

oss << 0xa1;

Well, I can but I just get the decimal number of the value added. I just
want to append the ascii value to the string - it is a funny i sort of
character in this example.

Do I need to convert the 0xa1 into the relevant ascii symbol and then append
that? If so, how to convert? Is there a ostringstream function which will
do the conversion for me?

Angus

Angus wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am using ostringstream and want to write some ascii characters (not all
> alphanumeric) to the stream.
>
> I can do this sort of thing:
>
> int value = 9;
> oss << value;
>
> and that works fine.
>
> But I have some ascii values as hex - eg 0xa1. I can't do this:
>
> oss << 0xa1;
>
> Well, I can but I just get the decimal number of the value added. I just
> want to append the ascii value to the string - it is a funny i sort of
> character in this example.
>
> Do I need to convert the 0xa1 into the relevant ascii symbol and then append
> that? If so, how to convert? Is there a ostringstream function which will
> do the conversion for me?
>
> Angus
>
>

Insert std::hex into the stream (defined in <iomanip>). If you want it
to show the "0x" for you as well, also insert std::showbase.

oss << std::hex << std::showbase << 0xa ;

--
Alan Johnson

Angus wrote:

> But I have some ascii values as hex - eg 0xa1. I can't do this:
> oss << 0xa1;
> Well, I can but I just get the decimal number of the value added. I just
> want to append the ascii value to the string - it is a funny i sort of
> character in this example.

0xa1 is not an ascii value, the ascii charset has only codes in the 0-127
range. I suppose you mean some ascii extension.

If what you want is to write the character with that code, use a character
literal: '\xA1'.

--
Salu2

"Angus" <> wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> I am using ostringstream and want to write some ascii characters (not all
> alphanumeric) to the stream.
>
> I can do this sort of thing:
>
> int value = 9;
> oss << value;
>
> and that works fine.
>
> But I have some ascii values as hex - eg 0xa1. I can't do this:
>
> oss << 0xa1;

0xa1 is a number.
'0xa1' is a character.

is
oss << '0xa1';
what you want?

>
> Well, I can but I just get the decimal number of the value added. I just
> want to append the ascii value to the string - it is a funny i sort of
> character in this example.
>
> Do I need to convert the 0xa1 into the relevant ascii symbol and then
> append
> that? If so, how to convert? Is there a ostringstream function which
> will
> do the conversion for me?
>
> Angus
>
>

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:16:45 +0000, Angus wrote:

> But I have some ascii values as hex - eg 0xa1. I can't do this:
>
> oss << 0xa1;
>
> Well, I can but I just get the decimal number of the value added. I just
> want to append the ascii value to the string - it is a funny i sort of
> character in this example.

By itself, 0xa1 is of type "int", so the compiler selects the "int"
version of the insertion operator. If you want it to be a char, you
must use a cast, store the value in a variable of type char, or use an
escaped character literal. For example,

oss << static_cast<char>(0xa1);

or

char var = 0xa1;
oss << var;

or

oss << '\xa1';

Gregg