Jeff Garland wrote:

On Sun, 29 May 2005 00:21:33 -0400, Saurabh Sood wrote

...

Hi all,

i am totally new to boost but more i am feeling good and bad at same time ... good coz boost is cross-platform and powerful .. however sometimes its hard to do simple things ...

Take following for instance ..

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

...

using namespace boost::posix_time; ptime p = = microsec_clock::local_time(); ... ... (some calculations) ... time_duration td = microsec_clock::local_time() - p; std::cout << std::string(" Total Milliseconds: ") << td.total_milliseconds() << std::endl; // Works fine

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

...

But how can the value present in td.total_milliseconds() could be put inside a std::string ? It might sound simple but i guess its tricky . ...

How about #include <sstream> //... std::stringstream ss; ss << td.total_milliseconds(); std::string s = ss.str();

After all, total_milliseconds just returns a numeric value.

Or possibly: #include //... std::string m = boost::lexical_caststd::string(td.total_milleseconds()); Amounts to the same code as Jeff's code. But depending on the context it might be more convenient. Docs: http://www.boost.org/libs/conversion/lexical_cast.htm -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - Grafik/jabber.org