Can somebody tell me what actually a Stream means in C++..i am lots confued on this topic..Is is something that store bytes from input or output,,or smthing else....and how does it act as source and destination for I/O..pls help
Thanks.....
What is Streams....in C++
Can somebody tell me what actually a Stream means in C++..i am lots confued on this topic..Is is something that store bytes from input or output,,or smthing else....and how does it act as source and destination for I/O..pls help
Thanks.....
What have you done so far in your research? Have you at least started with the basics: lmgtfy
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Conceptually, a stream is data with a serial interface -- data that is you access it in order as opposed to however you like. You can have input streams, which read data serially, and output streams, which write data serially. IO interfaces are often written as streams.
The C++ standard library uses streams mostly for console and file IO.
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streams can also be used to access things like serial ports and network connections like TCP and HTTP. Boost Asio does some pretty awesome stuff.
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