I\'m pretty sure this will end up being a really obvious question, and that\'s why I haven\'t found much information on it. Still, I thought it was worth asking :)
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For dynamic structure, the answer is no.
If you know what data comes in, in C++, you can use the overloaded << in operator to read the data from the stream..
In C, you could convert the stream to a string assuming that you know the length of the data comes in and using the function like sscanf, you could read the data.