i see numerous different ways of converting one type to another. static_cast<int>(some_float) will convert the float to an int, but yet it doesnt convert for example a string to an int or vice versa.
Googling the question i find forums in which people give a response to this as bitshifting, or looping through the chars of the string to convert each, or some response that a beginner wouldnt understand. So then the beginner has to learn all that jsut to do a simple type conversion.
Coming from python i am use to the builtin functions int() which converts any digital type of value to an int, or str(), which converts any data type to an explicit string. So i am surprised that c++ doesnt have some simple method like this? or does it? I am a beginner so i am not looking at the fastest process or even the 'best' process, i am just looking for the easiest process, and ill work on the faster method later when i feel more comfortable in c++.
the basic methods i was looking for an would most use as a beginner:
char to a string
string to a char
int to a string
string to an int
float to an int
int to a float
it seems like there should be some built in function to take in any type value as one arg, and a second arg to the wanted convert type and return the first arg as the type you specified.
and one of the most used ways i as a beginner would want such a function is for getting user input. Which it appears getline(cin, input_var) is the only method that will get 'all' of the users line, so then i have to convert the string to a float,int, or char to do things with it, while in addition of checking that they input the correct data type i am looking for.