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Technical Specifications

Standard Library header files

Language Support
<cstddef> <limits> <climits> <contract>	<cfloat> <cstdint> <new> <version>	<typeinfo> <exception> <initializer_list>	<csignal> <csetjmp> <cstdarg>
Concepts
<concepts>
Diagnostics
<stdexcept>	<cassert>	<cerrno>	<system_error>
General utilities
<utility> <memory> <memory_resource> <scoped_allocator> <compare>	<bitset> <tuple> <optional> <any> <variant>	<type_traits> <ratio> <chrono> <typeindex> <functional>	<ctime> <cstdlib>
Strings
<string> <string_view>	<cctype> <cwctype>	<cwchar> <cuchar>	<cstring> <charconv>
Localization
<locale>	<codecvt>	<clocale>
Containers
<span> <array> <vector>	<deque> <forward_list> <list>	<map> <set> <queue>	<unordered_map> <unordered_set> <stack>
Iterators
<iterator>
Algorithms
<algorithm>	<execution>
Numerics
<complex> <random>	<valarray> <numeric>	<cfenv> <cmath>	<bit>
Input/Output
<iosfwd> <ios> <iomanip> <streambuf>	<istream> <ostream> <iostream>	<sstream> <fstream> <syncstream>	<cstdio> <cinttypes> <strstream>
Regular expressions
<regex>
Filesystem support
<filesystem>
Thread support
<thread> <atomic>	<mutex> <shared_mutex>	<condition_variable> <future>
C compatibility
<ciso646> <cstdalign>	<cstdbool> <ccomplex>	<ctgmath>

This header is part of the Input/Output library.

Classes
basic_stringbuf	implements raw string device (class template)
basic_istringstream	implements high-level string stream input operations (class template)
basic_ostringstream	implements high-level string stream output operations (class template)
basic_stringstream	implements high-level string stream input/output operations (class template)
Typedefs
stringbuf	basic_stringbuf<char>
wstringbuf	basic_stringbuf<wchar_t>
istringstream	basic_istringstream<char>
wistringstream	basic_istringstream<wchar_t>
ostringstream	basic_ostringstream<char>
wostringstream	basic_ostringstream<wchar_t>
stringstream	basic_stringstream<char>
wstringstream	basic_stringstream<wchar_t>
Functions
std::swap(std::basic_stringbuf) (C++11)	specializes the std::swap algorithm (function template)
std::swap(std::basic_istringstream) (C++11)	specializes the std::swap algorithm (function template)
std::swap(std::basic_istringstream) (C++11)	specializes the std::swap algorithm (function template)
std::swap(std::basic_istringstream) (C++11)	specializes the std::swap algorithm (function template)

Synopsis

namespace std {

    template <class charT,
              class traits = char_traits<charT>,
              class Allocator = allocator<charT> >
        class basic_stringbuf;
    typedef basic_stringbuf<char> stringbuf;
    typedef basic_stringbuf<wchar_t> wstringbuf;
    template <class charT, class traits, class Allocator>
        void swap(basic_stringbuf<charT, traits, Allocator>& x,
                  basic_stringbuf<charT, traits, Allocator>& y);

    template <class charT,
              class traits = char_traits<charT>,
              class Allocator = allocator<charT> >
        class basic_istringstream;
    typedef basic_istringstream<char> istringstream;
    typedef basic_istringstream<wchar_t> wistringstream;
    template <class charT, class traits, class Allocator>
        void swap(basic_istringstream<charT, traits, Allocator>& x,
                  basic_istringstream<charT, traits, Allocator>& y);

    template <class charT,
              class traits = char_traits<charT>,
              class Allocator = allocator<charT> >
        class basic_ostringstream;
    typedef basic_ostringstream<char> ostringstream;
    typedef basic_ostringstream<wchar_t> wostringstream;
    template <class charT, class traits, class Allocator>
        void swap(basic_ostringstream<charT, traits, Allocator>& x,
                  basic_ostringstream<charT, traits, Allocator>& y);

    template <class charT,
              class traits = char_traits<charT>,
              class Allocator = allocator<charT> >
        class basic_stringstream;
    typedef basic_stringstream<char> stringstream;
    typedef basic_stringstream<wchar_t> wstringstream;
    template <class charT, class traits, class Allocator>
        void swap(basic_stringstream<charT, traits, Allocator>& x,
                  basic_stringstream<charT, traits, Allocator>& y);
}

Class std::basic_stringbuf

template <class charT,
          class traits = char_traits<charT>,
          class Allocator = allocator<charT> >
class basic_stringbuf : public basic_streambuf<charT,traits> {
 public:
    typedef charT char_type;
    typedef typename traits::int_type int_type;
    typedef typename traits::pos_type pos_type;
    typedef typename traits::off_type off_type;
    typedef traits traits_type;
    typedef Allocator allocator_type;

    // Constructors:
    explicit basic_stringbuf(ios_base::openmode which = ios_base::in|ios_base::out);
    explicit basic_stringbuf(const basic_string<charT,traits,Allocator>& str,
                             ios_base::openmode which = ios_base::in|ios_base::out);
    basic_stringbuf(const basic_stringbuf& rhs) = delete;
    basic_stringbuf(basic_stringbuf&& rhs);

    // Assign and swap:
    basic_stringbuf& operator=(const basic_stringbuf& rhs) = delete;
    basic_stringbuf& operator=(basic_stringbuf&& rhs);
    void swap(basic_stringbuf& rhs);

    // Get and set:
    basic_string<charT,traits,Allocator> str() const;
    void str(const basic_string<charT,traits,Allocator>& s);

 protected:
    // Overridden virtual functions:
    virtual int_type underflow();
    virtual int_type pbackfail(int_type c = traits::eof());
    virtual int_type overflow (int_type c = traits::eof());
    virtual basic_streambuf<charT,traits>* setbuf(charT*, streamsize);
    virtual pos_type seekoff(off_type off, ios_base::seekdir way,
                             ios_base::openmode which = ios_base::in|ios_base::out);
    virtual pos_type seekpos(pos_type sp,
                             ios_base::openmode which = ios_base::in|ios_base::out);

 private:
    ios_base::openmode mode; // exposition only
};

Class std::basic_istringstream

template <class charT,
          class traits = char_traits<charT>,
          class Allocator = allocator<charT> >
class basic_istringstream : public basic_istream<charT,traits> {
 public:
    typedef charT char_type;
    typedef typename traits::int_type int_type;
    typedef typename traits::pos_type pos_type;
    typedef typename traits::off_type off_type;
    typedef traits traits_type;
    typedef Allocator allocator_type;

    // Constructors:
    explicit basic_istringstream(ios_base::openmode which = ios_base::in);
    explicit basic_istringstream(const basic_string<charT,traits,Allocator>& str,
                                 ios_base::openmode which = ios_base::in);
    basic_istringstream(const basic_istringstream& rhs) = delete;
    basic_istringstream(basic_istringstream&& rhs);

    // Assign and swap:
    basic_istringstream& operator=(const basic_istringstream& rhs) = delete;
    basic_istringstream& operator=(basic_istringstream&& rhs);
    void swap(basic_istringstream& rhs);

    // Members:
    basic_stringbuf<charT,traits,Allocator>* rdbuf() const;
    basic_string<charT,traits,Allocator> str() const;
    void str(const basic_string<charT,traits,Allocator>& s);

 private:
    basic_stringbuf<charT,traits,Allocator> sb; // exposition only
};

Class std::basic_ostringstream

template <class charT,
          class traits = char_traits<charT>,
          class Allocator = allocator<charT> >
class basic_ostringstream : public basic_ostream<charT,traits> {
 public:
    // types:
    typedef charT char_type;
    typedef typename traits::int_type int_type;
    typedef typename traits::pos_type pos_type;
    typedef typename traits::off_type off_type;
    typedef traits traits_type;
    typedef Allocator allocator_type;

    // Constructors/destructor:
    explicit basic_ostringstream(ios_base::openmode which = ios_base::out);
    explicit basic_ostringstream(const basic_string<charT,traits,Allocator>& str,
                                 ios_base::openmode which = ios_base::out);
     basic_ostringstream(const basic_ostringstream& rhs) = delete;
     basic_ostringstream(basic_ostringstream&& rhs);

    // Assign/swap:
    basic_ostringstream& operator=(const basic_ostringstream& rhs) = delete;
    basic_ostringstream& operator=(basic_ostringstream&& rhs);
    void swap(basic_ostringstream& rhs);

    // Members:
    basic_stringbuf<charT,traits,Allocator>* rdbuf() const;
    basic_string<charT,traits,Allocator> str() const;
    void str(const basic_string<charT,traits,Allocator>& s);

 private:
    basic_stringbuf<charT,traits,Allocator> sb; // exposition only
};

Class std::basic_stringstream

template <class charT,
          class traits = char_traits<charT>,
          class Allocator = allocator<charT> >
class basic_stringstream : public basic_iostream<charT,traits> {
 public:
    // types:
    typedef charT char_type;
    typedef typename traits::int_type int_type;
    typedef typename traits::pos_type pos_type;
    typedef typename traits::off_type off_type;
    typedef traits traits_type;
    typedef Allocator allocator_type;

    // constructors/destructor
    explicit basic_stringstream(ios_base::openmode which = ios_base::out|ios_base::in);
    explicit basic_stringstream(const basic_string<charT,traits,Allocator>& str,
                                ios_base::openmode which = ios_base::out|ios_base::in);
    basic_stringstream(const basic_stringstream& rhs) = delete;
    basic_stringstream(basic_stringstream&& rhs);

    // Assign/swap:
    basic_stringstream& operator=(const basic_stringstream& rhs) = delete;
    basic_stringstream& operator=(basic_stringstream&& rhs);
    void swap(basic_stringstream& rhs);

    // Members:
    basic_stringbuf<charT,traits,Allocator>* rdbuf() const;
    basic_string<charT,traits,Allocator> str() const;
    void str(const basic_string<charT,traits,Allocator>& str);

 private:
    basic_stringbuf<charT, traits> sb; // exposition only
};