In fact, I must confess that my original attraction to C was not caused by its charming syntax but because stdio.h file handling was far easier than in Pascal. In a nutshell, formatting. Here is the class definition. It invokes the width operation of the ios class. The stream format interface, with all its manipulators, is cumbersome and not terribly intuitive.
Many programmers prefer the interface of the printf function.
Our plan is to write a manipulator setformat that takes a printf style string and translates it into stream formatting instructions. Entering text into the debug window 7. Conclusion Common wisdom holds that streams are superior to stdio because they are typesafe and extensible. In this article I showed that the extensibility goes far beyond the addition of new types to the formatting layer. I added a manipulator to convert printf formatting commands to their stream equivalents.