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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Memory Based Streams</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL-NS Stylesheets V1.76.1"/><meta name="keywords" content=" ISO C++ , library "/><meta name="keywords" content=" ISO C++ , runtime , library "/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The GNU C++ Library"/><link rel="up" href="io.html" title="Chapter 13. Input and Output"/><link rel="prev" href="streambufs.html" title="Stream Buffers"/><link rel="next" href="fstreams.html" title="File Based Streams"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Memory Based Streams</th></tr><tr><td align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="streambufs.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 13.
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Input and Output
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</th><td align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fstreams.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><div class="section" title="Memory Based Streams"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="std.io.memstreams"/>Memory Based Streams</h2></div></div></div><div class="section" title="Compatibility With strstream"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="std.io.memstreams.compat"/>Compatibility With strstream</h3></div></div></div><p>
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</p><p>Stringstreams (defined in the header <code class="code"><sstream></code>)
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are in this author's opinion one of the coolest things since
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sliced time. An example of their use is in the Received Wisdom
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section for Sect1 21 (Strings),
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<a class="link" href="strings.html#strings.string.Cstring" title="CString (MFC)"> describing how to
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format strings</a>.
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</p><p>The quick definition is: they are siblings of ifstream and ofstream,
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and they do for <code class="code">std::string</code> what their siblings do for
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files. All that work you put into writing <code class="code"><<</code> and
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<code class="code">>></code> functions for your classes now pays off
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<span class="emphasis"><em>again!</em></span> Need to format a string before passing the string
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to a function? Send your stuff via <code class="code"><<</code> to an
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ostringstream. You've read a string as input and need to parse it?
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Initialize an istringstream with that string, and then pull pieces
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out of it with <code class="code">>></code>. Have a stringstream and need to
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get a copy of the string inside? Just call the <code class="code">str()</code>
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member function.
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</p><p>This only works if you've written your
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<code class="code"><<</code>/<code class="code">>></code> functions correctly, though,
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and correctly means that they take istreams and ostreams as
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parameters, not i<span class="emphasis"><em>f</em></span>streams and o<span class="emphasis"><em>f</em></span>streams. If they
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take the latter, then your I/O operators will work fine with
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file streams, but with nothing else -- including stringstreams.
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</p><p>If you are a user of the strstream classes, you need to update
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your code. You don't have to explicitly append <code class="code">ends</code> to
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terminate the C-style character array, you don't have to mess with
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"freezing" functions, and you don't have to manage the
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memory yourself. The strstreams have been officially deprecated,
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which means that 1) future revisions of the C++ Standard won't
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support them, and 2) if you use them, people will laugh at you.
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