operator>>(std::basic_istream)

Defined in header `<istream>`
template< class CharT, class Traits > basic_istream<CharT,Traits>& operator>>( basic_istream<CharT,Traits>& st, CharT& ch ); template< class Traits > basic_istream<char,Traits>& operator>>( basic_istream<char,Traits>& st, signed char& ch ); template< class Traits > basic_istream<char,Traits>& operator>>( basic_istream<char,Traits>& st, unsigned char& ch );	(1)
	(2)
template< class CharT, class Traits> basic_istream<CharT,Traits>& operator>>( basic_istream<CharT,Traits>& st, CharT* s ); template< class Traits > basic_istream<char,Traits>& operator>>( basic_istream<char,Traits>& st, signed char* s ); template< class Traits > basic_istream<char,Traits>& operator>>( basic_istream<char,Traits>& st, unsigned char* s );		(until C++20)
template< class CharT, class Traits, std::size_t N > basic_istream<CharT,Traits>& operator>>( basic_istream<CharT,Traits>& st, CharT (&s)[N] ); template< class Traits, std::size_t N > basic_istream<char,Traits>& operator>>( basic_istream<char,Traits>& st, signed char (&s)[N] ); template< class Traits, std::size_t N > basic_istream<char,Traits>& operator>>( basic_istream<char,Traits>& st, unsigned char (&s)[N] );		(since C++20)
template< class Istream, class T > Istream&& operator>>( Istream&& st, T&& value );	(3)	(since C++11)

1-2) Performs character input operations.

1) Behaves as an FormattedInputFunction. After constructing and checking the sentry object, which may skip leading whitespace, extracts a character and stores it to ch. If no character is available, sets failbit (in addition to eofbit that is set as required of a FormattedInputFunction).

2) Behaves as an FormattedInputFunction. After constructing and checking the sentry object, which may skip leading whitespace, extracts successive characters and stores them at successive locations of a character array whose first element is pointed to by (until C++20) s. The extraction stops if one of the following conditions are met:

a whitespace character (as determined by the ctype<CharT> facet) is found. The whitespace character is not extracted.

`st.width() - 1` characters are extracted (if `st.width()` is greater than zero)	(until C++20)
`min(std::size_t(st.width()), N) - 1` characters are extracted (if `st.width()` is greater than zero) `N - 1` characters are extracted otherwise	(since C++20)

end of file occurs in the input sequence (this also sets eofbit)

In either case, an additional null character value CharT() is stored at the end of the output. If no characters were extracted, sets failbit (the null character is still written, to the first position in the output). Finally, calls st.width(0) to cancel the effects of std::setw, if any.

3) Calls the appropriate extraction operator, given an rvalue reference to an input stream object (equivalent to st >> std::forward<T>(value)). This overload participates in overload resolution only if st >> std::forward<T>(value) is well-formed and Istream is a class type publicly and unambiguously derived from std::ios_base.

Notes

Extracting a single character that is the last character of the stream does not set eofbit: this is different from other formatted input functions, such as extracting the last integer with operator>>, but this behavior matches the behavior of std::scanf with "%c" format specifier.

Parameters

st	-	input stream to extract the data from
ch	-	reference to a character to store the extracted character to
s	-	pointer to (until C++20) a character array to store the extracted characters to

Return value

1-2) st

3) std::move(st)

Example

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <sstream>
 
int main()
{
    std::string input = "n greetings";
    std::istringstream stream(input);
    char c;
    const int MAX = 6;
    char cstr[MAX];
 
    stream >> c >> std::setw(MAX) >> cstr;
    std::cout << "c = " << c << '\n'
              << "cstr = " << cstr << '\n';
 
    double f;
    std::istringstream("1.23") >> f; // rvalue stream extraction
    std::cout << "f = " << f << '\n';
}

Output:

c = n
cstr = greet
f = 1.23

Defect reports

The following behavior-changing defect reports were applied retroactively to previously published C++ standards.

DR	Applied to	Behavior as published	Correct behavior
LWG 1203	C++11	overload for rvalue stream returned lvalue reference to the base class	returns rvalue reference to the derived class
LWG 2328	C++11	overload for rvalue stream required another argument to be lvalue	made to accept rvalue
LWG 2534	C++11	overload for rvalue stream was not constrained	constrained

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Last Updated	2022-06-02T22:02:33Z