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+ </p><p>Stringstreams (defined in the header <code class="code"><sstream></code>)
+ are in this author's opinion one of the coolest things since
+ sliced time. An example of their use is in the Received Wisdom
+ section for Chapter 21 (Strings),
+ <a class="ulink" href="../21_strings/howto.html#1.1internal" target="_top"> describing how to
+ format strings</a>.
+ </p><p>The quick definition is: they are siblings of ifstream and ofstream,
+ and they do for <code class="code">std::string</code> what their siblings do for
+ files. All that work you put into writing <code class="code"><<</code> and
+ <code class="code">>></code> functions for your classes now pays off
+ <span class="emphasis"><em>again!</em></span> Need to format a string before passing the string
+ to a function? Send your stuff via <code class="code"><<</code> to an
+ ostringstream. You've read a string as input and need to parse it?
+ Initialize an istringstream with that string, and then pull pieces
+ out of it with <code class="code">>></code>. Have a stringstream and need to
+ get a copy of the string inside? Just call the <code class="code">str()</code>
+ member function.
+ </p><p>This only works if you've written your
+ <code class="code"><<</code>/<code class="code">>></code> functions correctly, though,
+ and correctly means that they take istreams and ostreams as
+ parameters, not i<span class="emphasis"><em>f</em></span>streams and o<span class="emphasis"><em>f</em></span>streams. If they
+ take the latter, then your I/O operators will work fine with
+ file streams, but with nothing else -- including stringstreams.
+ </p><p>If you are a user of the strstream classes, you need to update
+ your code. You don't have to explicitly append <code class="code">ends</code> to
+ terminate the C-style character array, you don't have to mess with
+ "freezing" functions, and you don't have to manage the
+ memory yourself. The strstreams have been officially deprecated,
+ which means that 1) future revisions of the C++ Standard won't
+ support them, and 2) if you use them, people will laugh at you.
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