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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