Returns: true if a previous call to open succeeded (returned a non-null value) and there has been no intervening call to close.
basic_filebuf<charT,traits>* open(const char* s,
ios_base::openmode mode);
Effects: If is_open() != false, returns a null pointer. Otherwise, initializes the filebuf as required. It then opens a file, if possible, whose name is the ntbs s (as if by calling std::fopen(s,modstr)). The ntbs modstr is determined from mode & ~ios_base::ate as indicated in Table [tab:iostreams.file.open.modes]. If mode is not some combination of flags shown in the table then the open fails.
| ios_base flag combination | stdio equivalent | ||||
| binary | in | out | trunc | app | |
| + | "w" | ||||
| + | + | "a" | |||
| + | "a" | ||||
| + | + | "w" | |||
| + | "r" | ||||
| + | + | "r+" | |||
| + | + | + | "w+" | ||
| + | + | + | "a+" | ||
| + | + | "a+" | |||
| + | + | "wb" | |||
| + | + | + | "ab" | ||
| + | + | "ab" | |||
| + | + | + | "wb" | ||
| + | + | "rb" | |||
| + | + | + | "r+b" | ||
| + | + | + | + | "w+b" | |
| + | + | + | + | "a+b" | |
| + | + | + | "a+b" | ||
If the open operation succeeds and (mode & ios_base::ate) != 0, positions the file to the end (as if by calling std::fseek(file,0,SEEK_END)).334
If the repositioning operation fails, calls close() and returns a null pointer to indicate failure.
Returns: this if successful, a null pointer otherwise.
basic_filebuf<charT,traits>* open(const string& s,
ios_base::openmode mode);
Returns: open(s.c_str(), mode);
basic_filebuf<charT,traits>* close();
Effects: If is_open() == false, returns a null pointer. If a put area exists, calls overflow(traits::eof()) to flush characters. If the last virtual member function called on *this (between underflow, overflow, seekoff, and seekpos) was overflow then calls a_codecvt.unshift (possibly several times) to determine a termination sequence, inserts those characters and calls overflow(traits::eof()) again. Finally, regardless of whether any of the preceding calls fails or throws an exception, the function closes the file (as if by calling std::fclose(file)).335 If any of the calls made by the function, including std::fclose, fails, close fails by returning a null pointer. If one of these calls throws an exception, the exception is caught and rethrown after closing the file.
Returns: this on success, a null pointer otherwise.
Postcondition: is_open() == false.
The macro SEEK_END is defined, and the function signatures fopen(const char*, const char*) and fseek(FILE*, long, int) are declared, in <cstdio> ([c.files]).