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std::basic_ios
Member functions
State functions
Formatting
Miscellaneous
Protected member functions
The class std::basic_ios
provides facilities for interfacing with objects that have std::basic_streambuf interface. Several std::basic_ios
objects can refer to one actual std::basic_streambuf
object.
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Several typedefs for common character types are provided:
Type
Definition
std::ios
std::basic_ios<char>
std::wios
std::basic_ios<wchar_t>
[edit] Member types
Member type
Definition
traits_type
Traits
; the program is ill-formed if
Traits::char_type
is not
CharT
.
[edit]
int_type
Traits::int_type
[edit]
pos_type
Traits::pos_type
[edit]
off_type
Traits::off_type
[edit]
[edit] Public member functions
constructs the object
(public member function) [edit]
destructs the object
(virtual public member function) [edit]
the copy assignment operator is deleted
(public member function)
State functions
checks if no error has occurred i.e. I/O operations are available
(public member function) [edit]
checks if end-of-file has been reached
(public member function) [edit]
checks if an error has occurred
(public member function) [edit]
checks if a non-recoverable error has occurred
(public member function) [edit]
checks if an error has occurred (synonym of
fail() )
(public member function) [edit]
checks if no error has occurred (synonym of
!
fail() )
(public member function) [edit]
returns state flags
(public member function) [edit]
sets state flags
(public member function) [edit]
modifies state flags
(public member function) [edit]
Formatting
copies formatting information
(public member function) [edit]
manages the fill character
(public member function) [edit]
Miscellaneous
manages exception mask
(public member function) [edit]
sets the locale
(public member function) [edit]
manages associated stream buffer
(public member function) [edit]
manages tied stream
(public member function) [edit]
narrows characters
(public member function) [edit]
widens characters
(public member function) [edit]
[edit] Protected member functions
initializes a default-constructed
std::basic_ios (protected member function) [edit]
moves from another
std::basic_ios except for
rdbuf
(protected member function) [edit]
swaps with another
std::basic_ios except for
rdbuf
(protected member function) [edit]
replaces the
rdbuf
without clearing its error state
(protected member function) [edit]
Member functions
Formatting
manages format flags
(public member function of std::ios_base
) [edit]
sets specific format flag
(public member function of std::ios_base
) [edit]
clears specific format flag
(public member function of std::ios_base
) [edit]
manages decimal precision of floating point operations
(public member function of std::ios_base
) [edit]
manages field width
(public member function of std::ios_base
) [edit]
Locales
sets locale
(public member function of std::ios_base
) [edit]
returns current locale
(public member function of std::ios_base
) [edit]
Internal extensible array
returns a program-wide unique integer that is safe to use as index to
pword() and
iword() (public static member function of std::ios_base
) [edit]
resizes the private storage if necessary and access to the
long element at the given index
(public member function of std::ios_base
) [edit]
resizes the private storage if necessary and access to the
void* element at the given index
(public member function of std::ios_base
) [edit]
Miscellaneous
registers event callback function
(public member function of std::ios_base
) [edit]
sets whether C++ and C I/O libraries are interoperable
(public static member function of std::ios_base
) [edit]
Member classes
stream exception
(public member class of std::ios_base
) [edit]
initializes standard stream objects
(public member class of std::ios_base
) [edit]
Member types and constants
Type
Explanation
stream open mode type
The following constants are also defined:
app
seek to the end of stream before each write
[edit]
trunc
discard the contents of the stream when opening
[edit]
ate
seek to the end of stream immediately after open
[edit]
(typedef) [edit]
formatting flags type
The following constants are also defined:
fixed
generate floating point types using fixed notation, or hex notation if combined with
scientific: see
std::fixed [edit]
showbase
generate a prefix indicating the numeric base for integer output, require the currency indicator in monetary I/O: see
std::showbase [edit]
(typedef) [edit]
state of the stream type
The following constants are also defined:
failbit
input/output operation failed (formatting or extraction error)
[edit]
eofbit
associated input sequence has reached end-of-file
[edit]
(typedef) [edit]
seeking direction type
The following constants are also defined:
cur
the current position of stream position indicator
[edit]
(typedef) [edit]
specifies event type
(enum) [edit]
callback function type
(typedef) [edit]
Straightforward implementation of std::basic_ios
stores only the following members (which all depend on the template parameters and thus cannot be part of std::ios_base ):
- the fill character (see
fill()
)
- the tied stream pointer (see
tie()
)
- the associated stream buffer pointer (see
rdbuf()
).
Actual implementations vary:
Microsoft Visual Studio stores just those three members.
LLVM libc++ stores 1 less member: it maintains the rdbuf
pointer as a void* member of ios_base
.
GNU libstdc++ stores 4 additional members: three cached facets and a flag to indicate that fill was initialized.