10.4.2. iostream Iterators
Even though the iostream types are not containers, there are iterators that can be used with objects of the IO types (§ 8.1, p. 310). An istream_iterator
(Table 10.3 (overleaf)) reads an input stream, and an ostream_iterator
(Table 10.4 (p. 405)) writes an output stream. These iterators treat their corresponding stream as a sequence of elements of a specified type. Using a stream iterator, we can use the generic algorithms to read data from or write data to stream objects.
Table 10.3. istream_iterator Operations
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