Formatting struct timespec

Question

How to format struct timespec to string? This structure is returned e.g. by clock_gettime() on Linux gcc:

struct timespec {
    tim         


        

Answer 1

You could use a std::stringstream. You can stream anything into it:

std::stringstream stream;
stream << 5.7;
stream << foo.bar;

std::string s = stream.str();

That should be a quite general approach. (Works only for C++, but you asked the question for this language too.)