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c++stlstring-concatenation

C++ equivalent of StringBuffer/StringBuilder?


Is there a C++ Standard Template Library class that provides efficient string concatenation functionality, similar to C#'s StringBuilder or Java's StringBuffer?


Solution

  • The C++ way would be to use std::stringstream or just plain string concatenations. C++ strings are mutable so the performance considerations of concatenation are less of a concern.

    with regards to formatting, you can do all the same formatting on a stream, but in a different way, similar to cout. or you can use a strongly typed functor which encapsulates this and provides a String.Format like interface e.g. boost::format