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How to assign a default arguement to ofstream?
For example:

void My_Function( int a, int b = 0, ofstream outFile )
{
//Boby of the code
}

The arguement b has a default value 0. How to assign a default
arguement to the arguement outFile so that the caller of the function
does not need to pass a value to it?

Thanks.

wrote:
> How to assign a default arguement to ofstream?
> For example:
>
> void My_Function( int a, int b = 0, ofstream outFile )
> {
> //Boby of the code
> }
>
> The arguement b has a default value 0. How to assign a default
> arguement to the arguement outFile so that the caller of the function
> does not need to pass a value to it?
>
> Thanks.

You can't pass streams by value. They don't have copy constructors
but you can do it by reference.

void MyFunction (int a , int b = 0, ofstream& outFile = cout) {

....

On Jan 24, 11:42 pm, Ron Natalie <r...@spamcop.net> wrote:
> junw2...@gmail.com wrote:
> > How to assign a default arguement to ofstream?
> > For example:
>
> > void My_Function( int a, int b = 0, ofstream outFile )
> > {
> > //Boby of the code
> > }
>
> > The arguement b has a default value 0. How to assign a default
> > arguement to the arguement outFile so that the caller of the function
> > does not need to pass a value to it?
>
> > Thanks.

>
> You can't pass streams by value. They don't have copy constructors
> but you can do it by reference.

>
> void MyFunction (int a , int b = 0, ofstream& outFile = cout) {
>

But reference can not be reassigned. Can I pass a ofstream to
MyFunction as below?

ofstream outStream("myfile");
MyFunction ( 10, 100,outStream );

Thanks.

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>On Jan 24, 11:42 pm, Ron Natalie <r...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>> junw2...@gmail.com wrote:
>> > How to assign a default arguement to ofstream?
>> > For example:
>>
>> > void My_Function( int a, int b = 0, ofstream outFile )
>> > {
>> > //Boby of the code
>> > }
>>
>> > The arguement b has a default value 0. How to assign a default
>> > arguement to the arguement outFile so that the caller of the function
>> > does not need to pass a value to it?
>>
>> > Thanks.
>
>>
>> You can't pass streams by value. They don't have copy constructors
>> but you can do it by reference.
>
>>
>> void MyFunction (int a , int b = 0, ofstream& outFile = cout) {

If the function just writes to the stream and doesn't do anything
specifically file-related, you could make it more general by using
ostream &.
>
>But reference can not be reassigned. Can I pass a ofstream to
>MyFunction as below?

Yes. You're not reassigning it - you initialise a new reference whose
scope is the body of the function, each time the function is called.
>
>ofstream outStream("myfile");
>MyFunction ( 10, 100,outStream );

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Richard Herring