numeric vs strings

I noticed that alot of my doc data are ints & floats, which I have to convert to strings when using many of the controls . . . so wouldn't it be better to just declare them as CStrings or regular strings since my conversions to ints & floats would be less than my conversions to strings? Hope this makes sense. Guess I would like to have some kind of rule on deciding what types to declare the data in doc (which will be persistant. Thanks for anyone's input!

I would say that if your data isn't really textual then using CString's would be excessive. You don't really need the comparatively large memory overhead of a CString object, so I would just keep them as simple numeric types and write some generic conversion functions to convert the different numerics to strings and back again.

MikeM

Mike, thanks. Appreciate your input.