CMSC202 Lecture Notes for week of April 5

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Monday's lectures Wednesday's lectures During the week of April 5, we discussed the standard IO classes:
C++ uses a poerful, flexible, and mildly complex set of classes for performing IO. The base class, IOS, is used to derive a number of other classes, most notably (for our purposes) istream, ostream, iostream, and fstream.

Streams

Programs communicate with the outside world via IO operations. To the program, a stream is just a bunch of bits that get read or written. The program is free to make any interpretation it wants of the data in the stream. That is, the program can read a stream as a bunch of characters or as binary data.

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