Laboratory 7: Streams

Goal:
1. To understand how to use C++ object-oriented stream input/output.
2. To be able to format inputs and outputs.
3. To understand the stream I/O class hierarchy.
4. To understand how to input/output objects of user-defined types.
5. To be able to  create user-defined stream manipulators.
6. To be able to determine the success or failure of input/output operations.
7. To be able to tie output streams to input streams.

• Notes   (ppt)  (pdf)
  
• Streams & Serialization
  student.cpp  
  main.cpp  
  student.h  
  (Makefile student.make)
  To run this example you will have to supply command line arguments:
       c:\work>student "123 Santa" "456 Scrooge" "111 Barbie"
       c:\work>type students.txt
  Study how operator<< and operator>> are implemented. This program uses the same implementation of these operators to read from strings and from a file and to write to a file and to the screen. Explain how it is achieved by I/O abstraction!
  
  
• Instantiating objects from a stream with inheritance 
  ser.cpp
  Study the code and read along in your notes! What is the issue? How is it solved?
  
• Codes