Tools.h++ Manual

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RWpistream
RWpistream
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RWvistream istream
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RWvios
Synopsis #include <rw/pstream.h>
RWpistream pstr(cin); // Construct a RWpistream, using
cin's streambuf
Description Class RWpistream specializes the abstract base class RWvistream to restore
variables stored in a portable ASCII format by RWpostream .
You can think of RWpistream and RWpostream as an ASCII veneer over an
associated streambuf which are responsibile 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 ).
RWpistream can be interrogated as to the stream state using member
functions good() , bad() , eof() , etc.