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Dr. Richard Botting (dick@silicon.csci.csusb.edu) wrote:

[ ... ]

>  Meanwhile, things like the following seem to work nicely:
>  ostream& left(ostream& out) //set left justified
>  {	
>  	out.setf(ios::left, ios::adjustfield);
>  	return out;
>  }
>  Giving
>  	cout << hex << left << 12345;

>  However I am suspicious of easy solutions these days, so
>  what have I missed?

It's OK (even in C++ there are some cases which look simple _and_
work). In fact, the forthcoming standard library will contain a
manipulator for each flag bit - left, right, fixed and so on.

	Bernd

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