Help with setfill

[marie325]

How can I capture the current setfill char before I change it so I can change it back before my function ends?

 

[xwb]

C++ stream manipulation is an absolute pain.

The only way I know of doing this is to write a wrapper for setfill that stores the fill characters so that they can be queried.

 

[chipperMDW]

Or you could call the fill() member function of the stream, which returns the current fill character.

If you're going to be doing a lot of saving the states of your iostreams, I'd suggest Boost's io library at

http://www.boost.org.

They have some state saver classes already written.