Converting bool to text in C++

Question

Maybe this is a dumb question, but is there any way to convert a boolean value to a string such that 1 turns to \"true\" and 0 turns to \"false\"? I could just use an if st

Answer 1

Without dragging ostream into it:

constexpr char const* to_c_str(bool b) {
   return  
    std::array{"false", "true "}[b]
   ;
};