C Programming on the IBM PC (C Programmers Reference Guide Series)

flags

#include <iostream>fmtflags flags() const;fmtflags flags(fmtflags f);

The flags( ) function is a member of ios (inherited from ios_base).

The first form of flags( ) simply returns the current format flags settings of the associated stream.

The second form of flags( ) sets all format flags associated with a stream as specified by f. When you use this version, the bit pattern found in f is copied into the format flags associated with the stream. This version also returns the previous settings.

Related functions are unsetf( ) and setf( ).