Andreas Fabri, Geert-Jan Giezeman, and Lutz Kettner

All classes in the CGAL kernel provide input and output operators for IO streams. The basic task of such an operator is to produce a representation of an object that can be written as a sequence of characters on devices as a console, a file, or a pipe. In CGAL we distinguish between a raw ascii, a raw binary and a pretty printing format.

Introduced in: CGAL 1.0
BibTeX: cgal:fgk-ios-12-16b
License: LGPL

All classes in the CGAL kernel provide input and output operators for IO streams. CGAL provides three different printing mode, defined in the enum Mode, as well as different functions to set and get the printing mode.

Classified Reference Pages

Enum

CGAL::Mode

Functions

Classes

Modules
	Stream Operators

Classes
class	CGAL::Color
	An object of the class `Color` is a color available for drawing operations in many CGAL output streams. More...

class	CGAL::Input_rep< T, F >
	The definition of `Input_rep` is completely symmetric to `Output_rep`. More...

class	CGAL::Output_rep< T, F >
	The purpose of `Output_rep` is to provide a way to control output formatting that works independently of the object's stream output operator. More...

class	CGAL::Istream_iterator< T, Stream >
	The class `Istream_iterator` is an input iterator adaptor for the input stream class `Stream` and value type `T`. More...

class	CGAL::Ostream_iterator< T, Stream >
	The class `Ostream_iterator` is an output iterator adaptor for the output stream class `Stream` and value type `T`. More...

class	CGAL::Verbose_ostream
	The class `Verbose_ostream` can be used as an output stream. More...

Enumerations
enum	CGAL::IO::Mode { CGAL::IO::ASCII = 0, CGAL::IO::BINARY, CGAL::IO::PRETTY }
	All classes in the CGAL `Kernel` provide input and output operators for IOStreams. More...

Functions
Mode	CGAL::get_mode (std::ios &s)
	returns the printing mode of the IO stream `s`. More...

Mode	CGAL::set_ascii_mode (std::ios &s)
	sets the mode of the IO stream `s` to be the `ASCII` mode. More...

Mode	CGAL::set_binary_mode (std::ios &s)

Mode	CGAL::set_mode (std::ios &s, IO::Mode m)
	sets the printing mode of the IO stream `s`. More...

Mode	CGAL::set_pretty_mode (std::ios &s)
	sets the mode of the IO stream `s` to be the `PRETTY` mode. More...

bool	CGAL::is_ascii (std::ios &s)
	checks if the IO stream `s` is in `ASCII` mode. More...

bool	CGAL::is_binary (std::ios &s)
	checks if the IO stream `s` is in `BINARY` mode. More...

bool	CGAL::is_pretty (std::ios &s)
	checks if the IO stream `s` is in `PRETTY` mode. More...

template<class T >
Output_rep< T >	CGAL::oformat (const T &t)
	Convenience function to construct an output representation (`Output_rep`) for type `T`. More...

template<class T >
Input_rep< T >	CGAL::iformat (const T &t)
	The definition of this function is completely symmetric to `oformat()`.

template<class T , typename F >
Output_rep< T, F >	CGAL::oformat (const T &t, F)
	Convenience function to construct an output representation (`Output_rep`) for type `T`. More...

Enumeration Type Documentation

enum CGAL::IO::Mode

All classes in the CGAL Kernel provide input and output operators for IOStreams.

The basic task of such an operator is to produce a representation of an object that can be written as a sequence of characters on devices as a console, a file, or a pipe. The enum Mode distinguish between three different printing formats.

In ASCII mode, numbers e.g. the coordinates of a point or the coefficients of a line, are written in a machine independent format. In BINARY mode, data are written in a binary format, e.g. a double is represented as a sequence of four byte. The format depends on the machine. The mode PRETTY serves mainly for debugging as the type of the geometric object is written, as well as the data defining the object. For example for a point at the origin with Cartesian double coordinates, the output would be PointC2(0.0, 0.0). At the moment CGAL does not provide input operations for pretty printed data. By default a stream is in Ascii mode.