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<H2>38.1 Deriving a New Stream Type</H2>
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<A NAME="idx899"><!></A>
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<P>Sometimes it is useful to derive a stream type from the standard iostreams. This is the case when you want to add data members or functions, or modify the behavior of a stream's I/O operations.</P>
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<P>In <A HREF="36.html">Chapter 36</A> we learned that additional data can be added to a stream object by using <SAMP>std::os_base::xalloc()</SAMP>, <SAMP>std::ios_base::iword()</SAMP>, and <SAMP>std::ios_base::pword()</SAMP>. However, this solution has a certain weakness in that only a pointer to the additional data can be stored and someone else has to worry about the actual memory.</P>
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<A NAME="idx900"><!></A>
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<P>This weakness can be overcome by deriving a new stream type that stores the additional data as a data member. Let's consider again the example of the <SAMP>date</SAMP> inserter and the <SAMP>setfmt</SAMP> manipulator from <A HREF="36-3.html">Section 36.3</A>. Here let's derive a new stream that has an additional data member for storing the format string together with a corresponding member function for setting the date format specification. [This, of course, is only an example. You would probably never derive a new class for adding only one data member. However, it keeps the example simple and allows us to demonstrate the principle of deriving new stream classes.]</P>
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<P>Again, we confine the example to the inserter of the <SAMP>date</SAMP> object and omit the extractor. Instead of inserting into an output stream, as we did before, we now use a new type of stream called <SAMP>odatstream</SAMP>:</P>
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date today;
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odatstream ostr(std::cout);
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// ...
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ostr << setfmt("%D") << today;
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</PRE></UL>
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<P>In the next sections, we explore how we can implement such a derived stream type.</P>
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