C++17 Standard Library Quick Reference: A Pocket Guide to Data Structures, Algorithms, and Functions

© Peter Van Weert and Marc Gregoire 2019

Peter Van Weert and Marc GregoireC++17 Standard Library Quick Referencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4923-9_5

5. Input/Output

Peter Van Weert¹  and Marc Gregoire²

(1)

Kessel-Lo, Belgium

(2)

Meldert, Belgium

 

In C++, input and output (I/O for short) mostly happens through an abstraction known as streams. Streams allow you to perform I/O operations without knowing the details of their target or source. Be it your command-line interface, a string, or a file—streams offer an easy, uniform interface to communicate with any of these.

In this chapter, we first cover the different C++ stream libraries. Next, we discuss the C++17 <filesystem> library, which allows you to inspect and manipulate the files that are present ...