Essential C++

3.10. Using the iostream Iterators

Imagine that we have been given the task of reading a sequence of string elements from standard input, storing them into a vector, sorting them, and then writing the words back to standard output. A typical solution looks like this:

#include <iostream> 
#incluse <string> 
#include <vector> 
#include <algorithm> 
using namespace std; 

int main() 
{ 
    string word; 
    vector<string> text; 

    // ok: let's read each word in turn until done 
    while ( cin >> word ) 
            text.push_back( word ); 

    // ok: sort it 
    sort( text.begin(), text.end() ); 

    // ok: let's write them back 
    for ( int ix = 0; ix < text.size(); ++ix ) 
          cout << text[ ix ] << ' '; 
} 

The standard library defines both input and output iostream iterator classes, called istream_iterator ...