الجمعة، 19 فبراير 2016

I/O Streams and Standard I/O Devices

I/O: sequence of bytes (stream of 

bytes) from source to destination

Bytes are usually characters, unless program requires other types of information

Stream: sequence of characters from 

source to destination

Input stream: sequence of characters 


from an input device to the computer


Output stream: sequence of 

characters 

from the computer to an output 

device

Use iostream header file to 

extract (receive) data from keyboard 

and send output to the screen

Contains definitions of two data 
types:

istream - input stream

ostream - output stream

Has two variables:

cin - stands for common input

cout - stands for common output


To use cin and cout, the 

preprocessor directive  

#include <iostream> 

must be used

Variable declaration is 

similar to:

istream cin;

ostream cout;

Input stream variables: type 

istream

Output stream variables

type ostream


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