In his answer, specifically in the linked Ideone example, @Nawaz shows how you can change the buffer object of cout to write to something else. This made me think of utilizing that to prepare input...

I have been doing research on creating my own ostream and along with that a streambuf to handle the buffer for my ostream. I actually have most of it working, I can insert (<<) into my stream...

What are 'aliased stream buffers`? I encountered the term in a comment on an answer of mine.

I've experienced problems using asio::streambuf and am hoping someone can tell me if I'm using the class incorrectly. When I run this example code it segfaults. Why? To make things more confusing,...

I want to use this snippet from Mr-Edd's iostreams article to print std::clog somewhere. #include <iostream> #include <iomanip> #include <string> #include <sstream> int ma...

In my previous question I asked how to read from a memory just as from a file. Because my whole file was in memory I wanted to read it similarly. I found answer to my question but actually I need ...

I used to be a C++ expert a decade ago, but for the past 10 years I've been programming Java. I just started a C++ project that uses a small third-party XML parser. The XML parser accepts an STL is...

I have a memory block (opaque), that I want to store in a Blob in mySQL through their C++ adapter. The adapter expects a istream: virtual void setBlob(unsigned int parameterIndex, std::istream * b...

For educational purposes I want to create a ostream and stream buffer to do: fix endians when doing << myVar; store in a deque container instead of using std:cout or writing to a file lo...