Convert a number to a string with specified length in C++

Question

I have some numbers of different length (like 1, 999, 76492, so on) and I want to convert them all to strings with a common length (for example, if the length is 6, then tho

Answer 1

or using the stringstreams:

#include 
#include 

std::stringstream ss;
ss << std::setw(10) << std::setfill('0') << i;
std::string s = ss.str();

I compiled the information I found on arachnoid.com because I like the type-safe way of iostreams more. Besides, you can equally use this code on any other output stream.