/*
 * toString.hpp
 *
 *  Created on: Nov 14, 2010
 *      Author: heber
 */

#ifndef TOSTRING_HPP_
#define TOSTRING_HPP_

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>

/** Converter for any class to string.
 * We use default conversion via stringstream as suggested by [Stroustrup].
 * \param _&_object reference to object to convert to string.
 * \return string converted \a _object
 */
template <class T> std::string toString(T const &_object)
{
  std::stringstream s;
  s << _object;
  return s.str();
}

#endif /* TOSTRING_HPP_ */