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In this section you ll see examples that use what you ve
learned in this chapter. Although many tools exist to manipulate bytes (stream
editors such as sed and awk from UNIX are perhaps the most well
known, but a text editor also fits this category), they generally have some
limitations. Both sed and awk can be slow and can only handle
lines in a forward sequence, and text editors usually require human
interaction, or at least learning a proprietary macro language. The programs
you write with iostreams have none of these limitations: they re fast,
portable, and flexible.
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