How to clear out a stringstream

[Saeven]

Hello,

I thought the following code would work, but alas I am stumped. I find little docs on this on the net, and was hoping a member here had a solution other than 'ungetting' all characters gotten.

	stringstream a;

	for( int i = 0 ; i < 10 ; i++ ){
		a.flush();
                                a.clear();
		a << i ;
		cout << a.str();
	}

Flush or Clear do not seem to do anything, the idea is to clear it to receive a new slate for the upcoming elements. The code above is simplistic, but I hope I am making sense.

Thanks.
Alex