How to display a number?

Simple task, one would assume. C++ offers quite a bunch of facilities to display a number as a string, such as

boost::lexical_cast< string >
printf
sprintf
snprintf

Unfortunally, CINT doesn't recognize any of them (I didn't even try to use boost because that's kind of out of the question in the first place). I don't understand why among the printf functions from <cstdio> only printf is recognized...

Anyway, how do you tackle this apparently impossible task which should actually be pretty common? Received on Mon Apr 05 2010 - 11:56:26 CEST