pcount

Determines the number of bytes offset from the current stream position to the beginning of the array.

  int pcount() const;

Remarks

The function pcount() is used to determine the offset of the array. This may not equal to the number of characters inserted due to possible positioning operations.

Returns an int_type that is the length of the array.

Listing: Example of ostrstream pcount() usage.

#include <iostream>
#include <strstream>

int main()

{

   ostrstream out;

   out   << "CodeWarrior " << 1234   << ends;

   out <<   "the size of the array so far is " 

      << out.pcount() <<   " characters \n";

   out   << " Software at work" << ends;

   out <<   "the final size of the array   is " 

      <<out.pcount() <<   " characters \n";

   cout << out.str() << endl;

   return 0;

}