Writing stringstream contents into ofstream

Question

I\'m currently using std::ofstream as follows:

std::ofstream outFile;
outFile.open(output_file);

Then I attempt to pass a st

Answer 1

I'd rather write ss.str(); instead of ss.rdbuf(); (and use a stringstream).

If you use ss.rdbuf() the format-flags of outFile will be reset rendering your code non-reusable. I.e., the caller of GetHolesResults(..., std::ofstream &outFile) might want to write something like this to display the result in a table:

outFile << std::setw(12) << GetHolesResults ...

...and wonder why the width is ignored.