On 07/26/13 21:26, Stephen Greenfield wrote: [snip]
3) Holger Gerth questioned why I was using filtering_streambuf when I could've been using filtering_stream. Truth is, I wasn't sure, however, in my experiments I could neither construct the ostream (which I required to pass to other functions) from the filtering_stream, nor could I pass the filtering_stream in place of the ostream I required.
Even after reading several articles on filtering_streambuf vs filtering_stream, I'm still mystified how and why (FOR MY PURPOSE) I would use the filtering_stream over constructing an ostream from a filtering_streambuf.
[snip] Hi Stephen, I thought the filtering_stream would be derived from std::ostream, at least according to: Derived class of std::basic_istream, std::basic_ostream or std::basic_iostream, used to perform filtering. quoted from: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_54_0/libs/iostreams/doc/classes/filtering_st... Did you not find this so, or do you needs require something more specific than std::ostream& to be passed to the other functions you mention? -regards, Larry