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[qwertyuiopas]

I have been avoiding C++ for a variety of reasons, and recently decided to use it for a program because of it's easy string concatenation(C requires you to resize the string before concatenation, and I am working with situations where I can not simply predict the required padding, as it will most likely either be way too large or will be reached sometime), but I would like to give output in base 16 rather than base 10.
Google failed me by either giving a result that didn't work and one that would probably work but required creating a class and other undesireable stuff.

So, I would like to know if eithe printf() is compatible with ofstream, or a way to output fixed precision hexadecimal rather than integers.

Edit: I realized a solution:
sprintf to a char[10](reused to avoid malloc and free) and << that into the string/file.

Still, knowing the "proper" way would be nice.

Edit again:
sprintf() to a global temp worked perfectly, at least the way I did it so I just use
out<<"\n["<<hexstr(x)<<"] \"";
Where x is an int, and out is an ofstream.

Still would like to know if there is a better version, as this way requires either passing the format string or writing a function for common formats(although I could do both, there probably is a better way).

[Alexhans]

I may have misunderstood the question... I'll read it again later and see if I can help.

short thought...

cant you use <iomanip> header to format and use cin cout if its something simple?

[qwertyuiopas]

The problem is not getting the output out, but getting it out in the desired format.
Generally in a way that works for file output as well as standard output.
In a way better than using sprintf(); to a temporary string to get the desired formatting.