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We've already worked around this (identified two way to do so) but we 
wonder why it doesn't work this way:

Given:
    istrstream source;
    int i;
    string s;
    source >> setw(2) >> i >> s;

With fixed length fields (yes, we have to read mainframe data from time to 
time, and a few other odd sources), sometimes the fields are butted up against
each other, and sometimes the strings have initial digit characters i them.

When the stream contains "01115 N Neil", it would be nice if "01" and "115 N 
Neil" were broken out, but every compiler we try pulls "01115" as the number, 
and "N Neil" is the string.

Of course, if we insert whitespace or use read, this works.  And we should use
read() because we're doing fixed length, but I was wondering why setw() 
doesn't apply to integer extractors.

Surely a lot of people have to read fixed-length records, and this is a common
thing.

Any thoughts?
Tim

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