Re: Help converting this Write to operator<< overload
"Marcus Kwok" <ricecake@gehennom.invalid> wrote in message
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Jim Langston <tazmaster@rocketmail.com> wrote:
I have a CSkill class which is rather complex as it is recursive. That
is:
class CSkill
{
public:
CSkill( std::string Name, float Value ): Name_( Name ), Value_(
Value )
{};
void Update( const std::string& Name, const float Value );
float Value( const std::string& Name ) const;
float Sum( const std::string& Name ) const;
void Write( std::ostream& os, const std::string& Prefix ) const;
std::string CSkill::PlainName( const std::string& Name ) const;
friend std::istream& operator>>( std::istream& is, CSkill& Skill);
private:
float Sum() const;
std::string Name_;
float Value_;
std::map< std::string, CSkill > Skills_;
};
Well, to output this class to an ostream, I use this function:
void CSkill::Write( std::ostream& os, const std::string& Prefix ) const
{
if ( Name_.length() > 0 && Value_ > 0 )
os << Prefix << Name_ << " " << Value_ << std::endl;
for ( std::map< std::string, CSkill >::const_iterator it =
Skills_.begin(); it != Skills_.end(); ++it )
{
(*it).second.Write( os, ( Name_.length() > 0 ? Prefix + Name_ +
"|"
: "" ) );
}
}
but I would prefer to use
std::ostream& operator<<( /* what goes here? */ )
The problem I see is that I need to pass that extra parameter, a
std::string, which is used in the recursion. Is something like this
allowed?
outfile << Skills( "" ) << SomethingElse
Could you do something like:
std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& o, const CSkill& c)
{
c.Write(o, "");
return o;
}
?
I actually thought about that about 2 minutes before checking for responses.
That's a good idea and I think that's the way I'll go. The parm going into
the top level is an empty string "" so I don't have to change it.
Good thinking.
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