<iomanip>

Include the iostreams standard header <iomanip> to define several manipulators that each take a single argument. Each of these manipulators returns an unspecified type, called T1 through T6 here, that overloads both basic_istream<Elem, Tr>::operator>> and basic_ostream<Elem, Tr>::operator<<. Thus, you can write extractors and inserters such as:

cin >> setbase(8);
cout << setbase(8);

namespace std {
T1 resetiosflags(ios_base::fmtflags mask);
T2 setiosflags(ios_base::fmtflags mask);
T3 setbase(int base);
template<class Elem>
    T4 setfill(Elem ch);
T5 setprecision(streamsize prec);
T6 setw(streamsize wide);
    };

resetiosflags

T1 resetiosflags(ios_base::fmtflags mask);

The manipulator returns an object that, when extracted from or inserted into the stream str, calls str.setf(ios_base:: fmtflags(), mask), then returns str.

setbase

T3 setbase(int base);

The manipulator returns an object that, when extracted from or inserted into the stream str, calls str.setf(mask, ios_base::basefield), then returns str. Here, mask is determined as follows:

• If base is 8, then mask is ios_base::oct
• If base is 10, then mask is ios_base::dec
• If base is 16, then mask is ios_base::hex
• If base is any other value, then mask is ios_base::fmtflags(0)

setfill

template<class Elem>
    T4 setfill(Elem ch);

The template manipulator returns an object that, when extracted from or inserted into the stream str, calls str.fill(ch), then returns str. The type Elem must be the same as the element type for the stream str.

setiosflags

T2 setiosflags(ios_base::fmtflags mask);

The manipulator returns an object that, when extracted from or inserted into the stream str, calls str.setf(mask), then returns str.

setprecision

T5 setprecision(streamsize prec);

The manipulator returns an object that, when extracted from or inserted into the stream str, calls str.precision(prec), then returns str.

setw

T6 setw(streamsize wide);

The manipulator returns an object that, when extracted from or inserted into the stream str, calls str.width(wide), then returns str.

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