std::ios_base

std::ios_base

Defined in header <ios>
class ios_base;

The class ios_base is a multipurpose class that serves as the base class for all I/O stream classes. It maintains several kinds of data:

1) state information: stream status flags
2) control information: flags that control formatting of both input and output sequences and the imbued locale
3) private storage: indexed extensible data structure that allows both long