Symbol stringification?

Question

an action in my contract accepts an asset:

void token::burn(asset a)

which I want to print out:

printf("Asset [%s] burnt\n", a.symbol.to_string());

except the symbol class does not offer stringification. there's a print method but that's not what I need as I want a string I can embed elsewhere

this seems like pretty basic functionality. how is this done?

Answer 1

the answer turns out to be:

printf("Asset [%s] burnt\n", a.symbol.code().to_string().c_str());

thanks to @aarin_hagerty on https://t.me/joinchat/Esi1OkPktgcFeJ3Lmlcrqg for the answer