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| a facility that lets you change the associations for the standard input and output |
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| What are Command-line arguments? |
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| arguments that appear on the command line when you type a command |
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| Seek to end-of-file upon opening file |
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| Append to end-of-file, may add data to end of file only |
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| Truncate file if it exists |
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| (Same as ios_base::out | ios_base::trunc) |
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| ios_base::out | ios_base::trunc |
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| Open for writing, truncating file if it already exists |
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| ios_base::out | ios_base::app |
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| Open for writing, append only |
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| ios_base::in | ios_base::out |
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| Open for reading and writing, with writing permitted anywhere in the file |
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| ios_base::in | ios_base::out | ios_base::trunc |
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| Open for reading and writing, first truncating file if it already exists |
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| c++mode | ios_base::binary |
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| Open in C++ mode or corresponding cmode and in binary mode; for example, ios_base::in | ios_base::binary becomes "rb" |
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| Open in indicated mode and go to end of file |
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| How do you save data in binary form instead of text form? |
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| How do you recover information from a file? |
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| read() with an ifstream object. Example: ifstream fin("planets.dat", ios_base::in | ios_base::binary);
fin.read((char*) &pl, sizeof pl); |
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| What does Random access mean? |
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| moving directly to any location in the file instead of moving through it sequentially |
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| moves the input pointer to a given file location |
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| seekp() moves the output pointer to a given file location |
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| What does streampos represent? |
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| absolute location in a file, measured from the beginning of the file |
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| How do you check the current position of a file pointer? |
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tellg() for input streams
tellp() for output streams |
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| resets the stream state, turning off eofbit |
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