Persistent ios::setw()

[Martin Magnusson]

Sending setw() to an ostream (for formatting numerical output etc.) only
affects the next field. Is there no way to set width and padding more
permanently?

Thanks,
martin

 

[Mike Wahler]

Sending setw() to an ostream (for formatting numerical output etc.) only
affects the next field. Is there no way to set width and padding more
permanently?

'width(0)' is called automatically after insertions.
The fill character remains the same until explicitly
changed.

-Mike

 

[Fraser Ross]

Write an overloaded operator for insertion. I am not sure what happens for
built-in types since there is already overloaded functions for them. It is
a tricky function to write. Normally it returns a reference to the stream
and it is a friend.

Fraser.