Modern C++ for Absolute Beginners: A Friendly Introduction to C++ Programming Language and C++11 to C++20 Standards

© Slobodan Dmitrović 2020

S. DmitrovićModern C++ for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6047-0_37

37. Input/Output Streams

Slobodan Dmitrović¹ 

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Belgrade, Serbia

 

We can convert our objects to streams of bytes. We can also convert streams of bytes back to objects. The I/O stream library provides such functionality.

Streams can be output streams and input streams.

Remember the std::cout and std::cin? Those are also streams. For example, the std::cout is an output stream. It takes whatever objects we supply to it and converts them to a byte stream, which then goes to our monitor. Conversely, std::cin is an input stream. It takes the input from the keyboard and converts that input to our objects.

There are different kinds of I/O streams, ...