A Tour of C++, 3rd Edition

11

Input and Output

What you see is all you get.

– Brian W. Kernighan

• Introduction

• Output

• Input

• I/O State

• I/O of User-Defined Types

• Formatting

  Stream Formatting; printf()-style Formatting

• Streams

  Standard Streams; File Streams; String Streams; Memory Streams; Synchronized Streams

• C-style I/O

• File System

  Paths; Files and Directories

• Advice

11.1 Introduction

The I/O stream library provides formatted and unformatted buffered I/O of text and numeric values. It is extensible to support user-defined types exactly like built-in types and type safe.

The file system library provides basic facilities for manipulating files and directories.

An ostream converts typed objects to a stream of characters (bytes):

An istream converts a stream of characters ...