Re: String problems

From:
"Alexander Nickolov" <agnickolov@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:19:59 -0700
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This group is for C and C++ questions.

The proper newsgroup for C++/CLI questions is:

microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vc

Posting on the correct group helps avoiding confusions...

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"Lrcpp" <Lrcpp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:513F091F-C7BC-42CA-BF81-FA9A20AFE8B7@microsoft.com...

System::String^ Card::setPicture
The return type is a string. Thank you for the help and I found a way to
do
it, I used this line instead
return cl + Convert::ToString(otherIntegerVariable);
and that seems to be working fine for my purposes, thank you again for
your
help

"Victor Bazarov" wrote:

Lrcpp wrote:

Hello, I am currently in the process of learning c++ and have been
running into issues with strings. What I am attempting to do is
rather simple: Switch(IntegerVariable){


switch(IntegerVariable){ // C++ is case-sensitive

     case 0:
         return "cl" + otherIntegerVariable;
        break;
etc. etc. but the compiler keeps giving me a massive error message,
and does not seem to like me concatenating a string and an integer,
yet I have never ran into this problem before...any help is
appreciated


What you're trying to do is to _convert_ your integer variable into
another string and then concatenate them. Please show us how your
function (from which you're trying to 'return "cl"') is declared.

Most likely what you want to do is
   ...
      case 0: {
          std::ostringstream os;
          os << "cl" << otherIntegerVariable;
          return os.str();
      }

(and 'break' is really superfluous after a 'return').

V
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