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28 Text processing library [text]

28.3 Localization library [localization]

28.3.4 Standard locale categories [locale.categories]

28.3.4.1 General [locale.categories.general]

Each of the standard categories includes a family of facets.

Some of these implement formatting or parsing of a datum, for use by standard or users' iostream operators << and >>, as members put() and get(), respectively.

Each such member function takes anios_base& argument whose membersflags(),precision(), andwidth(), specify the format of the corresponding datum ([ios.base]).

Those functions which need to use other facets call its member getloc()to retrieve the locale imbued there.

Formatting facets use the character argument fillto fill out the specified width where necessary.

The put() members make no provision for error reporting.

(Any failures of the OutputIterator argument can be extracted from the returned iterator.)

The get() members take an ios_base​::​iostate& argument whose value they ignore, but set to ios_base​::​failbit in case of a parse error.

Within [locale.categories] it is unspecified whether one virtual function calls another virtual function.