Re: Byte-oriented streaming
On 2008-02-04 01:06:24 -0500, Jeff Schwab <jeff@schwabcenter.com> said:
Chris Swiedler wrote:
Is there a C++ STL or boost class hierarchy for byte streaming similar
to ostream and friends for character streaming? Those classes do not
seem designed to support byte streaming (e.g. they interpret
whitespace and null bytes specially).
What leads you to believe that?
Well, for one thing, the definition of extractors for builtin types.
They treat whitespace as a delimiter.
Can post a short example of what's not working the way you want it to?
The ostream and istream interfaces are meant to allow whatever kind of
I/O you need, via differing implementations (rdbufs). strstream gives
null bytes special meanings, but stringstream (for example) does not.
Depending on your OS (I'm looking at you, MS), file I/O may require a
binary flag; I've never had to specify it on any flavor of Unix or
Linux, though.
Stream inserters and extractors (operator<< and operator>>) are
designed for formatted I/O, not for unformatted I/O.
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