C++ Standard Input/Output
C++ standard input/output operations are performed to flow bytes stream from keyboard (input device) to main memory and from main memory to display screen (output device) respectively. The input/output are done using standard libraries provided by C++.
C++ I/O Library Header Files
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| <iostream> | This library defines cin, cout, cerr,and clog objects for input stream, output stream, un-buffered error stream, buffered error stream respectively. |
| <fstream> | This library defines file declares services for user-controlled file processing. |
| <iomapin> | This library declares services useful for performing formatted I/O such as setw and setprecision. |
C++ Standard Output Stream (cout)
C++ has predefined object cout. It is an instance of ostream class. The cout uses insertion or put to operator (<<) for printing output on screen like printf() function in C language. The multiple use of << in a single statement is called cascading.
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#include <iostream> using namespace std; int main(){ cout<<"This is output statement."<<endl; cout<<10; } |
Output:
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This is output statement. 10 |
C++ Standard Input Stream (cin)
C++ has predefined object cin. It is an instance of istream class. The cin uses extraction or get from operator (>>) to wait for user to provide input like scanf() function in C language. We can also cascade input operator >>.
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#include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { int value; cout << "Please enter integer value: "; cin >> value; cout << "Your value is: " << value << endl; } |
Output:
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Please enter integer value: 10 Your value is: 10 |
Note: The endl keyword is used to move cursor to new line.