Extended STL, Volume 1: Collections and Iterators

Chapter 34. An Enhanced ostream_iterator

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Introduction

Do you ever find yourself wanting to output the contents of a sequence where the elements are to be indented, perhaps by a tab space ('\t'), as in the following example?

Header Files:
    H:\freelibs\b64\current\include\b64\b64.h
    H:\freelibs\b64\current\include\b64\cpp\b64.hpp
Implementation Files:
    H:\freelibs\b64\current\src\b64.c
    H:\freelibs\b64\current\test\C\C.c
    H:\freelibs\b64\current\test\Cpp\Cpp.cpp

Using std::ostream_iterator, this is disproportionately difficult and ...