Day 17. Working with Streams
Until now, you’ve been using cout to write to the screen and cin to read from the keyboard, without a full understanding of how they work. Today, you will learn all about both of these.
Today, you will also learn
• What streams are and how they are used
• How to manage input and output using streams
• How to write to and read from files using streams
Overview of Streams
C++ does not define how data is written to the screen or to a file, nor how data is read into a program. These are clearly essential parts of working with C++, however, and the standard C++ library includes the iostream library, which facilitates input and output (I/O).
The advantage of having the input and output kept apart from the language and ...
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