itoa'd you so?

[Weston Cerny]

Levi Pearson wrote:
> Steve <smorrey at gmail.com> writes:
>   
>> I came up with 2 solutions which both amounted to roughly the same code.
>>
>> std::string itoa(int in){
>> 	std::stringstream out;
>> 	out << in;
>> 	return(out.str());
>> }
>>
>> and
>>
>> char* itoa(int in){
>> 	std::stringstream out;
>> 	out << in;
>> 	return(out.rdbuf.c_str());
>> }
>>
>> So my question is, what is wrong with this method (I haven't tested it
>> so there may be a minor syntax error, but that aside)?
>>     
>
> What's wrong with that method is that it's using the standard library,
> which was explicitly not available.  C++ kind of hides the fact that
> you're essentially calling itoa() when you do out << in there, once
> you go through the overloaded function that implements <<, etc.
>
> So, try doing it again in plain C without using any standard library
> functions.
>
>                 --Levi
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What about and I am not a C or C++ person so i'll avoid the char* 
discussion and just use string to denote the operations?
string itoa(int in) {
    string ret = "";
    int current = in;

    while (current > 0 && current %= 10)
    {
       ret = (char)((int)current + (int)'0') + ret;
       current /= 10;
    }

    return ret;
}