I'm pulling my hair out to simply take a number say 37 and convert it to a string under Tango

int x = 37
Char[] y = intToString(x);

how the blazes do I make this simple little thing work??

tytower wrote:

> I'm pulling my hair out to simply take a number say 37 and convert it to a string under Tango
> 
> int x = 37
> Char[] y = intToString(x);
> 
> how the blazes do I make this simple little thing work??

see http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/ChapterConversions#Integer


import Integer = tango.text.convert.Integer;

...

int x = 37;
char[] y = toString(x);

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:47:38 +0300, tytower <tytower@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm pulling my hair out to simply take a number say 37 and convert it to a string under Tango
>
> int x = 37
> Char[] y = intToString(x);
>
> how the blazes do I make this simple little thing work??

http://www.dsource.org/projects/tango/wiki/ChapterConversions#Conversionbetweentextandnumerictypes

For your example:

import tango.text.convert.Integer;
...
int x = 37;
char[] y = toString(x);

naryl:
> import tango.text.convert.Integer;
> int x = 37;
> char[] y = toString(x);

That sounds too much deep, what about something like:

import tango.text;
auto s = toString(37);

Or:

import tango.text;
auto s = str(37);

Or (no imports, but this requires compiler support):

auto s = cast(string)37;

Or maybe best of all:

auto s = string(37);

I think the design of a good simple way of doing things is very important.

Bye,
bearophile

import tango.group.Convert;

tytower schrieb:
> I'm pulling my hair out to simply take a number say 37 and convert it to a string under Tango
> 
> int x = 37
> Char[] y = intToString(x);
> 
> how the blazes do I make this simple little thing work??

In addtion to what others said, you can use the Convert module, that
does type convertions between various types. It uses the
to!( TargetType )
template function


import tango.util.Convert;

int x = 37
char[] y = to!(char[])(x);

There actually is a third way.
You can use the formatter

import tanto.text.convert.Format;

int x = 37;
char[] y1 = Format( "{} = 0x{:X4}", x ); // "37 = 0x0025"

Frank Benoit Wrote and Ty Tower thanks him and all the others for their replies

I found the convert module easiest to follow as a newbie-thanks