Thread: What are Flags?

Flags are settings, basically. Heres some flags for setting deimcal output to three spaces past the "."

cout << setiosflags(ios::fixed | ios::right | ios::showpoint)
<< setprecision(3);

Flags are variables a programmer uses to instead of logical conditions. For example suppose you read numbers from a file and you wish to find number 6. You create a loop and check if any number in the file matches 6. To terminate this loop you could use a flag, suppose an integer variable named 'found' which is equal to zero, until you find what you are looking for in the file. At that time found=1.

while (found!=1) {
...
}

So this loop terminates when 'found' has the value of 1. That's more or less the concept of a flag.
(Hope I was helpful...Maybe not! ;0) )

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