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Check out your compiler's documentation for the header file "stdarg.h". That file holds the functions and macros which can use vararg lists. Note, however, that in C++ it is an exceedingly bad idea to use varargs, because they throw away type safety and have problems with cleaning up after themselves. Beware, beware, beware.

likeregularchickens,

Check out va_start, va_begin, va_end under You can use these calls to merge those kind of strings together.

-brad

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Sneftel's got it covered, I'll expand on the alternatives:

1) Chaining.

void LogFile::WriteLine( const char * format , ... )

You could do:

LogFile & LogFile::Write( int number ) {    ...    return *this;}LogFile & LogFile::Write( const std::string & string ) {    ...    return *this;}LogFile mylog;mylog.Write( 13 ).Write( "Example string" );

To replace this clunky usage with a familliar one, we simply switch our function names from "Write" to "operator<<" and our example use to:

mylog << 13 << "Example string";

This is known as operator chaining, a powerful technique used by the standard library's iostreams.

2) Chaining... using someone else's library

The Boost C++ Libraries have an excelent utility called boost::format. Here's an example:

int foo = 13;std::string bar = "pie";cout << boost::format("%1% %2%") % foo % bar << endl; //result: 13 piestd::string result = str( boost::format("%1% %2%") % foo % bar ); //result: result == "13 pie"LogFile & LogFile::Write( const std::string & string ) {    ...}mylog.Write( str( boost::format( "%1% %2%" ) % foo % bar ) );

Thank you, thank you very much.