Chapter 15. Stream Input/Output

 

Consciousness ... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits ... A “river” or a “stream” are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described.

 
 --William James
 

All the news that’s fit to print.

 
 --Adolph S. Ochs
 

Remove not the landmark on the boundary of the fields.

 
 --Amenehope

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you’ll learn:

  • To use C++ object-oriented stream input/output.

  • To format input and output.

  • The stream-I/O class hierarchy.

  • To use stream manipulators.

  • To control justification and padding.

  • To determine the success or failure of input/output operations.

  • To tie output streams to input streams.

Outline

15.1

Introduction

15.2

Streams

 

15.2.1

Classic Streams vs. Standard Streams

 

15.2.2

iostream Library Header Files

 

15.2.3

Stream ...

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