Using basic_ofstream

Is this right/OK/good/bad - whatever.

Code:

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typedef basic_ofstream<TCHAR, char_traits<TCHAR> > tofstream;

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I am trying to create an output stream that takes characters of type TCHAR (as you can guess). The question is, does this actually do this?

Thanks for your assistance.

HD

Yes, this will work, but if you use a tofstreaf, and UNICODE is defined, the output will not be an ASCII text file. If you write wchar_t characters to a file, they will be written as two bytes.

Am I correct in assuming that as long as I use the equivalent input stream (tifstream) then this wont matter?

My app needs to be localisable and therefore I required UNICODE support. TCHAR was suggested as the 'best' method of doing this.

HD

This is possible.
Here's a header file that does the same thing for all streams and for strings too.