Preferred conversion from char (not char*) to std::string

Question

I have a char, a plain old character, that I would like to turn into an std::string. std::string(char) doesn\'t exist of course. I c

Answer 1

This works on gcc C++ 4.9.2 (http://ideone.com/f3qhTe)

#include 
using namespace std;

int main() {
    // your code goes here
    std::string test;

    test = (char) 76;
    test += (char) 77;
    test += (char) 78;
    test += (char) 79;

    std::cout << "test contains: " << test << std::endl;
    return 0;
}