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RWpostream
RWpostream RWvostream RWvios
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Synopsis
#include <rw/pstream.h>
// Construct an RWpostream, using cout's streambuf:
RWpostream pstr(cout) ;
Description
Class RWpostream specializes the abstract base class RWvostream to store variables in a
portable (printable) ASCII format. The results can be restored by using its counterpart
RWpistream.
You can think of RWpistream and RWpostream as an ASCII veneer over an associated
streambuf which are responsible for formatting variables and escaping characters such that the
results can be interchanged between any machines. As such, they are slower than their binary
counterparts RWbistream and RWbostream which are more machine dependent. Because
RWpistream and RWpostream retain no information about the state of their associated
streambufs, their use can be freely exchanged with other users of the streambuf (such as
istream or ifstream).