Help with a function that accepts different parameter types

Question

I'm trying to create a function that prints out an XML tag with a value. I have the code below, but kind of stuck. I'd like to be able to call the function, and pass a value that could be a float, int, string or char. Appreciate any help.

char PingTime[6] = "3ms";
char PingText[60] = "ping reply blah blah";
float humidity = "40.56";
int DigialPin = 0;

PrintXMLTag(cl,"pingtime",PingTime); 
PrintXMLTag(cl,"PingText",PingText);  
PrintXMLTag(cl,"humidity",humidity);    
PrintXMLTag(cl,"DigialPin",DigialPin);  

void PrintXMLTag_DEC(EthernetClient cl, const char* tag, NotSure?? val) 
{
  char tmp [100];
  StrClear(tmp,100);

  // If val type is float ----------------------
  int d1 = val; // Get the integer part 
  float f2 = val - d1; // Get fractional part 
  int d2 = trunc(f2 * 10000);// Turn into integer 
  sprintf(tmp,"<%s>%d.%02d</%s>\n",tag,d1,d2,tag);
  // end float

  // If val type is string ----------------------

  // If val type is int ----------------------

  // If val type is char ----------------------

  cl.print(tmp);
}

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Update, now converting the type to char before calling the PrintXML function resolves my initial issue. If I use the code below it seems to chew up a lot of memory, is there something obviously wrong? As a workaround I'm just printing the XML tags using cl.print and the memory usage is stable.

void PrintXMLTag(EthernetClient cl, char* tag,  char* val) 
{
  char tmp [100];
  sprintf(tmp,"<%s>%s</%s>\n",tag,val,tag);
  cl.print(tmp);
  StrClear(tmp,100);
}

Answer 1

try using this example instead of iostream you can use iostream.h too..

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int sum (int a, int b)
{
  return a+b;
}

double sum (double a, double b)
{
  return a+b;
}

int main ()
{
  cout << sum (10,20) << '\n';
  cout << sum (1.0,1.5) << '\n';
  return 0;
}

Answer 2

take a look at: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/functions2/

template <typename SomeType>
SomeType sum (SomeType a, SomeType b)
{
  return a+b;
}

This appears to be what you want.

Answer 3

If your goal is really to print the value from XML, you don't need to worry about types, as long as you believe the XML to be correctly formed. The value in the XML file is already character string just print it. The converting from string to variable (sprintf()) and back to string (Serial.print() or printf()) is unnecessary.