Question

I’m reading input to a char array of size 5,

stringstream ss;

char a[5];

if (!ss.read(a, 5))
{
    // throw exception
}

if (!ss.get(a, 5))
{
   // throw exception
}

Both of these functions seem to work, is there any difference?

Answer 1

ss.read will read 5 bytes from the stream, unless it hits the end of the stream.

ss.get will read 4 bytes, unless it hits the delimiter (‘\n’) or end of the stream. It will also null-terminate the string.