> On Jun 30, 2020, at 12:59 PM, Gennaro Prota <gennaro.prota_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 19:02 Philip Prindeville via Std-Discussion <std-discussion_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out what the appropriate behavior of std::setw() and std::ios_base::width() should be on a istream. It doesn't seem to be well defined.
>>
>> If I have:
>>
>> istringstream is("0123456789");
>> unsigned u1, u2;
>>
>> is >> setw(2) >> u1 >> u2;
>>
>> cout << u1 << ' ' << u2 << endl;
>>
>> I’d expect the output to be "1 23\n" with "4" being the next character on the input stream.
>
> It will work as you expect if you extract into a std::string. Not all extractors take into account the width (the string extractor does). Alternatively, you can use the get() member, or, since C++20, extract into an array of chars.


Is it too late to get to-integer extractors to have properly defined behavior in C++20 that includes .width() or setw() ?


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>> [...]
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>> You'd think this would be a fairly common/obvious usage scenario but it doesn't seem to be well defined in the IOStreams specification.
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> http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/iomanip/setw/
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> Refers to both input and output streams but only describes output behavior concretely.
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> http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ios/ios_base/width/
>
> If you really must use a non-primary source, I heartedly recommend cppreference.com over cplusplus.com (but, still, double check with the standard).


Ack.

-Philip