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At the moment I have a void member function (of a given class) that
takes as input an obj of class type ofstream and write some debug
information to it using the << operator.
I would like to modify the code so that the function returns a
"stream" that can be "sent" to cout or to a file using <<, as this
would give me more flexibility.
I used " " because I'm not sure I'm not using the correct terms
here.
Is there an easy way to accomplish this task?
Thank you in advance!

Cheers
StephQ

StephQ wrote:

> At the moment I have a void member function (of a given class) that
> takes as input an obj of class type ofstream and write some debug
> information to it using the << operator.
> I would like to modify the code so that the function returns a
> "stream" that can be "sent" to cout or to a file using <<, as this
> would give me more flexibility.
> I used " " because I'm not sure I'm not using the correct terms
> here.

Well, cout and the file actually are the streams.

> Is there an easy way to accomplish this task?

What you can do is simply return a string that contains the debug
information. Use a stringstream within your function to fill the string.

> What you can do is simply return a string that contains the debug
> information. Use a stringstream within your function to fill the string.

The problem (is it?) is that the debug information consists of more
than 1 line of information.
I know that with getline you can at most get an entire line bot not
more.
Does the stringstream library solves the problem?

Thanks
StephQ

p.s. sorry for the initial double post!

StephQ wrote:

>> What you can do is simply return a string that contains the debug
>> information. Use a stringstream within your function to fill the string.
>
> The problem (is it?) is that the debug information consists of more
> than 1 line of information.

And why is that a problem? A std::string may contain any number of
end-of-line characters.

> I know that with getline you can at most get an entire line bot not
> more. Does the stringstream library solves the problem?

You can write multiple lines into a stringstream. The underlying string will
contain the appropriate end-of-line characters. Writing this string to any
stream will write separate lines.


Best

Kai-Uwe Bux