converting int - string

[Night of Nights]

Hello I have created the following program to test out the rand() function and converting values (int - string).

#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sstream>
#include <ctime>

using namespace std;


int main (void) {

srand(time(0));

int x, tryNumber;
bool correct = false;
string guess, xstring;
ostringstream convert;


cout << "Guess the number 1 - 10!\n";

while (correct != true)
{
              
        x = rand() %10 +1;
        
        getline(cin,guess);
        convert << x;
        xstring = convert.str();
        
        if (guess == xstring)
        
        {
                  correct = true;
        }
        
        else
        
        {
             cout << "That was wrong! The correct number is " << x << "\nTry again !\n";
             tryNumber++;
             correct = false;
        }     
}
      
cout << "Well done! You guessed the number in " << tryNumber <<" try(s)!";


cin.get();

return 0;

}

The problem is that if I enter a number that was correct, for example I am entering '1' in all the time, this would happen:

1
That was wrong! The correct number is 1
Try again !

The only time this has not happened would be when I have guessed the correct number first try, however the try number was incredibly large.

I think the conversion of the int to a string is what is causing the first problem, however I do not know how to fix it, I don't know how to fix the second problem either.

Would someone tell me how I could fix this?

Thanks in advance.

[MiiNiPaa]

Content of xstring after 1 guess: "3"
after 2 guesses: "31"
after 3 guesses: "317".
Do you understand now?

Problem with try number is that you never assigned anything to it, so starting value will be garbage: essentially random.

[Night of Nights]

Ah okay thank you, can't believe I didn't think of that all this time ...

edit :

By the way would that mean I would have to clear xstring from any values each time the user guessed ?

[MiiNiPaa]

Not the xstring: you should clear convert stream. xstring will be replaced each time on line 28. convert will stay.

[Night of Nights]

Thanks a lot!

I managed to clear convert by

getline(cin,guess);
        convert.str("");
        convert << x;
        xstring = convert.str();

[Bourgond Aries]

Why not simply input the number directly into an integer?

int guess;
std::cin >> guess;

[Night of Nights]

Then I wouldn't be testing the method for converting an integer into a string.
The point of the program was to test out methods I know I will find useful in the future.

[LB]

In C++11, you can use std::to_string():
http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/to_string