Appendix A. The Library

CONTENTS

Section A.1 Library Names and Headers	810
Section A.2 A Brief Tour of the Algorithms	811
Section A.3 The IO Library Revisited	825

This appendix presents additional useful details about the library. We'll start by collecting in one place the names we used from the standard library. Table A.1 on the next page lists each name and the header that defines that name.

Chapter 11 covered the library algorithms. That chapter illustrated how some of the more common algorithms are used, and described the architecture that underlies the algorithms library. In this Appendix, we list all the algorithms, organized by the kinds of operations they perform.

We close by examining some additional IO library capabilities: format control, unformatted IO, and random access on files. Each IO type defines a collection of format states and associated functions to control those states. These format states give us finer control over how input and output works. The IO we've done has all been formattedthe input and output routines know about the types we use and format the data on input or output accordingly. There are also unformatted IO functions that deal with the stream at the char level, doing no interpretation of the data. In Chapter 8 we saw that the fstream type can read and write the same file. In this Appendix, we'll see how to do so.