Read uint8_t from std::stringstream as a numeric type

Question

My understanding is that reading a uint8_t from a stringstream is a problem because the stringstream will interpret the uint8_t<

Answer 1

After much back and forth, the answer seems to be that there is no standard way of doing this. The options are to either read off the uint8_t as either a uint16_t or std::string, and then convert those values to uint8_t:

#include 
#include 

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    uint8_t ui;
    uint16_t tmp;
    std::stringstream ss("46");
    ss >> tmp;
    ui = static_cast(tmp);
    cout << unsigned(ui);
    return 0;
}

However, such a solution disregards range checking. So you will need to implement that yourself if you need it.