C++ Standard Library Quick Reference

© Peter Van Weert and Marc Gregoire 2016

Peter Van Weert and Marc GregoireC++ Standard Library Quick Reference10.1007/978-1-4842-1876-1_5

5. Stream I/O

Peter Van Weert¹  and Marc Gregoire²

(1)

Kessel-Lo, Belgium

(2)

Meldert, Belgium

 

The C++ stream-based I/O library allows you to perform I/O operations without having to know details about the target to or source from which you are streaming. A stream’s target or source could be a string, a file, a memory buffer, and so on.

Input and Output with Streams

The stream classes provided by the Standard Library are organized in a hierarchy and a set of headers, as shown in Figure 5-1.

Figure 5-1.

The hierarchy of ...