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The State of the Stream

Explore how to manage and interpret the state flags of C++ streams to handle input/output operations correctly. Understand the significance of goodbit, eofbit, failbit, and badbit states and how to reset or query stream status for robust file handling and data input.

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Flags represent the state of the stream stream. The methods for dealing with these flags need the header <iostream>.

Flag Query of the flag Description
std::ios::goodbit stream.good() No bit set
std::ios::eofbit stream.eof() end-of-file bit set
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