C++

27.3    Methods for Stream Input and Output

In addition to the usual operator<< and operator>> for streams, you can also use methods provided by the I/O stream library. However, unlike the << and >> operators, these methods work with raw bytes and are therefore unformatted. The methods for standard input/output use the streamsize type from <ios>, which is usually size_t. This means, for example, that leading whitespace is not ignored during input.

27.3.1    Methods for Unformatted Output

For raw and unformatted output, the I/O stream library provides the put() and write()methods from the <ostream> header file. The put() method outputs individual characters, and write() outputs a specified number of characters. The following code snippet demonstrates ...