Classes for Files and Strings

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Classes for files and strings

There are two very common special cases of input and output: using files, and using strings in memory.

libio defines four specialized classes for these cases.

- ifstream
Methods for reading files.
- ofstream
Methods for writing files.
- istrstream
Methods for reading strings from memory.
- ostrstream
Methods for writing strings in memory.

For more information, see the following documentation’s discussion.

- Reading and writing files
- Reading and writing in memory

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