From: jimoeDESPAM@sohnen-moe.com   
      
   On 02/06/2013 12:09 AM, James Moe wrote:   
   > string msg1, msg2;   
   > std::ostringstream stro(msg1);   
   >   
     Thank you all for your responses.   
     Yes, I misunderstood what the initialization was for ostringstream. I   
   had thought it meant that stro used msg1 as its buffer. Not so.   
     Using stro.str() yields the expected output.   
      
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