C++ Primer, Fifth Edition

Contents

Section 8.1 The IO Classes

Section 8.2 File Input and Output

Section 8.3 string Streams

Chapter Summary

Defined Terms

The C++ language does not deal directly with input and output. Instead, IO is handled by a family of types defined in the standard library. These types support IO to and from devices such as files and console windows. Additional types allow in-memory IO to and from strings.

The IO library defines operations to read and write values of the built-in types. In addition, classes, such as string, typically define similar IO operations to work on objects of their class type as well.

This chapter introduces the fundamentals of the IO library. Later chapters will cover additional capabilities: Chapter 14 will look at how we can ...