Introduction

This chapter will cover all the input and output features in C++17.

The input and output streams enable you to communicate with the outside world. A stream is an infinite character stream on which you can push or pull data. Push is called writing, pull is called reading.

The input and output streams

  • were used long before the first C++ standard (C++98) in 1998,

  • are a for the extensibility designed framework,

  • are implemented according to the object-oriented and generic paradigms.