作为对 John 所说的内容的扩展,如果您想提取字符串表示并将其存储在 std::string中,可以这样做:
#include <sstream>
// ...
// Suppose a class A
A a;
std::stringstream sstream;
sstream << a;
std::string s = sstream.str(); // or you could use sstream >> s but that would skip out whitespace
class Base {
public:
virtual std::ostream& dump(std::ostream& o) const {
return o << "Base: " << b << "; ";
}
private:
int b;
};
class Derived : public Base {
public:
virtual std::ostream& dump(std::ostream& o) const {
return o << "Derived: " << d << "; ";
}
private:
int d;
}
std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& o, const Base& b) { return b.dump(o); }