27 Input/output library [input.output]

Returns: A basic_string object whose content is equal to the basic_stringbuf underlying character sequence. If the basic_stringbuf was created only in input mode, the resultant basic_string contains the character sequence in the range [eback(), egptr()). If the basic_stringbuf was created with which & ios_base::out being nonzero then the resultant basic_string contains the character sequence in the range [pbase(), high_mark), where high_mark represents the position one past the highest initialized character in the buffer. Characters can be initialized by writing to the stream, by constructing the basic_stringbuf with a basic_string, or by calling the str(basic_string) member function. In the case of calling the str(basic_string) member function, all characters initialized prior to the call are now considered uninitialized (except for those characters re-initialized by the new basic_string). Otherwise the basic_stringbuf has been created in neither input nor output mode and a zero length basic_string is returned.

Effects: Copies the content of s into the basic_stringbuf underlying character sequence and initializes the input and output sequences according to mode.

Postconditions: If mode & ios_base::out is nonzero, pbase() points to the first underlying character and epptr() >= pbase() + s.size() holds; in addition, if mode & ios_base::ate is nonzero, pptr() == pbase() + s.size() holds, otherwise pptr() == pbase() is true. If mode & ios_base::in is nonzero, eback() points to the first underlying character, and both gptr() == eback() and egptr() == eback() + s.size() hold.