Printing to stringstream and retaining formatting

[mike-5345]

Hello,

I want to be able to print a table to a stringstream but when I do this the special formatting (colour, boldness, etc.) is not retained.

I want to be able to pass around the table as a string in memory. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks,
Mike

[p-ranav]

Could you redirect std::cout to a buffer? I'm not sure if this works but it's worth a try.

std::stringstream buffer;
std::streambuf* prevcoutbuf = std::cout.rdbuf(buffer.rdbuf());

// print your table
std::cout << yourTable << std::endl;

// Get the table as a string
std::string text = buffer.str();

// Restore original buffer before exiting
std::cout.rdbuf(prevcoutbuf);