Originally posted by KnNeeded
I tried to use the iostream template class in the STL library
As abc_coder points out, iostreams is not part and has never been part of STL. The iostreams library has existed since the first C++ compilers existed, separate and apart from STL. Go to the SGI web site and look in the STL section -- you will find nothing there about iostreams. Get a book on just STL -- again you will find nothing on iostreams (except maybe an example using cout).

I know it sounds like a small thing to be concerned about, but I have seen programmers waste valuable time looking for information on iostreams, and where do they look? They look in the STL references, thereby not finding anything, wasting their time.

Regards,

Paul McKenzie