Rahul Jindal forced the electrons to say: > to my utter surprise, i found that gnu c++ does not have a itoa function > even when it has an atoi. There is no itoa() in ANSI C or POSIX either. Use sprintf(3) (or better, snprintf(3)) instead. sample: int n = 50; char s[3]; snprintf (s, sizeof s, "%d", n); Binand