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From: wilson@ac5.cs.nps.navy.mil (kalin wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: String as input stream
Message-ID: <2072@ac5.cs.nps.navy.mil>
Date: 10 Apr 91 20:34:24 GMT
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School,Monterey,CA
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Is there a simple way to use a string as an input object. Something built into 
the standard (?) iostream classes? What I want to do is similiar to sscanf with
an input stream or sprintf with an output stream. I want to attach the stream to a
string then use extractors to process the string. 
	Maybe this is undo duplication.  I'd like to stay away from printf type
functions because of some of the excess baggage they have.  It seems this type of
capability would be a logical OOP use of streams and strings. 



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