Maybe this is a dumb question, but is there any way to convert a boolean value to a string such that 1 turns to "true" and 0 turns to "false"? I could just use an if statement, but it would be nice to know if there is a way to do that with the language or standard libraries. Plus, I'm a pedant. :)
How about using the C++ language itself?
bool t = true;
bool f = false;
std::cout << std::noboolalpha << t << " == " << std::boolalpha << t << std::endl;
std::cout << std::noboolalpha << f << " == " << std::boolalpha << f << std::endl;
UPDATE:
If you want more than 4 lines of code without any console output, please go to cppreference.com's page talking about std::boolalpha
and std::noboolalpha
which shows you the console output and explains more about the API.
Additionally using std::boolalpha
will modify the global state of std::cout
, you may want to restore the original behavior go here for more info on restoring the state of std::cout
.