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From: mittle@blinn.watson.ibm.com (Josh Mittleman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: String as input stream
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Date: 11 Apr 91 15:32:11 GMT
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In article <2072@ac5.cs.nps.navy.mil>, wilson@ac5.cs.nps.navy.mil (kalin
wilson) writes:
> Is there a simple way to use a string as an input object. 


Yes.  You want to use istrstreams and ostrstreams.  Lippman's C++ Primer
has a good description in section A.8, Incore Formatting, beginning p.409.