From: "Geo" 


> C++ is a strongly-typed language. You can't use an int where a string is
> expected.

I figured this part

> If you look up this function in MSDN,

that's something I still can't do because I haven't yet installed MSDN on
my laptop. Still need to switch from my 40 to my 80gig drive before I do
that.

> Note that the ostringstream takes care of allocating the proper amount
> of memory for the string.

Oh cool, that's pretty slick so now I could even use long int if I wanted.
Thanks, now I've got something to play with that will let me view the
execution speed, as it runs now it's still very slow but I've got a
beginning now.

Geo.

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