Re: [Boost-users] Binary (non-character-based) file iterators

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Scott McMurray wrote:

2009/12/21 Jason Felice :

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I'm looking for binary (value_type = unsigned char) input and output iterators for files.  This is as opposed to a character base iterator (which rules out ostream_iterator<>).

If you can accept char instead of unsigned char, then use the standard streambuf iterators, istreambuf_iterator and ostreambuf_iterator.

Can I rely on there being no character set or line ending translation for an istream_iterator<char>, even with ios::binary? I thought not.