Question

My C++ book gives the following example regarding cout:

cout << "literals" << "to be" << "printed" ;

Then, it goes on to say:

The statements starts with the name of the output stream, cout

This seems to imply that there are other streams. Are there other output streams besides cout in C++? What are they?

Answer 1

Some examples:

• The std::cerr value from <iostream> – standard error stream
• The std::fstream type from <fstream> – file input and file output streams
• The std::stringstream type from <sstream> – string streams