System.IO.Stream Equivalent?

[wswartzendruber]

I'm trying to find an equivalent to System.IO.Stream in C++. I'm using GCC 3.4.5 under MinGW.

[ariell]

Why?

I mean, how could somebody help you without code or explanations?

[Paul McKenzie]

What is System.IO.Stream?

Regards,

Paul McKenzie

[ariell]

I GUESS that refers to Java..?

[wswartzendruber]

In the world of .NET, "Stream" is a class in the "System.IO" namespace. It's an abstract class that allows inheritors to expose different types of functionality as generic streams:

MemoryStream - Buffered memory access.
NetworkStream - Socket stuff.
FileStream - Read/write disk access.
CryptoStream - Cryptographic transformations.
GZipStream - GZip compression/decompression.

Streams can be chained together to combine functionality. If you would like more of a general idea, then look here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...io.stream.aspx

EDIT: I'm trying to avoid having to write one.

[ariell]

I guess (again) that you've hit the "wrong" board. We do not deal with dot.NET here, or Visual C++. But there's lots of boards that do at codeguru. Maybe somebody else is right into that stuff and will help you better?

Best from the south.

[wswartzendruber]

So there's nothing in the standard C++ library to facilitate generic stream handling like this?

[Speedo]

I would say that the iostream class (not the header) and/or streambuf class is closest to what you're looking for: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/iostream/

[wswartzendruber]

I would say that the iostream class (not the header) and/or streambuf class is closest to what you're looking for: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/iostream/

Outstanding! Thank you very much.