Converting Decimal to char* in C++ windows form application

Question

in my project I need to convert Deciml variable to char*; Coz I need to save the value that user entered in a numericupdown control in a xml output using tinyXML. the function that I am using for printing text in tinyXMl, take the char* parameter.

TiXmlText(char *);

Answer 1

What do you mean by Decimal? Perhaps int? See itoa() in the C runtime, or

template<typename T>
std::string to_string(T num)
{
    std::ostringstream stream;
    stream << num;
    return stream.str();
}

and call

TiXmlText(to_string(666).c_str());