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What’s the difference between istringstream, ostringstream and stringstream? / Why not use stringstream in every case?

October 19, 2022 by Tarik

Personally, I find it very rare that I want to perform streaming into and out of the same string stream. Usually I want to either initialize a stream from a string and then parse it; or stream things to a string stream and then extract the result and store it. If you’re streaming to and … Read more

How do you clear a stringstream variable?

September 12, 2022 by Tarik

For all the standard library types the member function empty() is a query, not a command, i.e. it means “are you empty?” not “please throw away your contents”. The clear() member function is inherited from ios and is used to clear the error state of the stream, e.g. if a file stream has the error … Read more