Modern C++ Programming Cookbook

How to do it...

To serialize/deserialize POD types that do not contain pointers, use ofstream::write() and ifstream::read(), as shown in the previous recipe:

• Serialize objects to a binary file using ofstream and the write() method:

        std::vector<foopod> output {          {true, '1', {1, 2}},           {true, '2', {3, 4}},           {false, '3', {4, 5}}        };        std::ofstream ofile("sample.bin", std::ios::binary);        if(ofile.is_open())        {          for(auto const & value : output)          {            ofile.write(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(&value),                        sizeof(value));          }          ofile.close();        }

• Deserialize objects from a binary file using the ifstream and  read() methods:

        std::vector<foopod> input;        std::ifstream ifile("sample.bin", std::ios::binary);        if(ifile.is_open())        {          while(true)          {            foopod value; ifile.read(reinterpret_cast<char*>(&value), ...