Object-Oriented Programming in C++, Fourth Edition

Chapter 12. Streams and Files

In This Chapter

• Stream Classes 568

• Stream Errors 577

• Disk File I/O with Streams 583

• File Pointers 597

• Error Handling in File I/O 601

• File I/O with Member Functions 604

• Overloading the Extraction and Insertion Operators 616

• Memory as a Stream Object 620

• Command-Line Arguments 622

• Printer Output 624

This chapter focuses on the C++ stream classes. We’ll start off with a look at the hierarchy in which these classes are arranged, and we’ll summarize their important features. The largest part of this chapter is devoted to showing how to perform file-related activities using C++ streams. We’ll show how to read and write data to files in a variety of ways, how to handle errors, and how files and OOP ...