Member Functions get, put and putback

• The function putback allows your program to literally put back one character into the input stream

• Takes one argument of type char

• Every output stream has putback as a member function

• Example: process until first blank then put blank back into stream

ifstream fin;

ofstream fout;

char next;

fin.get(next);

while (next != ‘ ‘)

{

fout.put(next);

fin.get(next);

}

fin.putback(next);

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