bool is_open() const;
Returns: true if a previous call to open succeeded (returned a non-null value) and there has been no intervening call to close.
basic_filebuf* open(const char* s, ios_base::openmode mode);
basic_filebuf* open(const filesystem::path::value_type* s,
ios_base::openmode mode); // wide systems only; see [fstream.syn]
Effects: If is_open() != false, returns a null pointer. Otherwise, initializes the filebuf as required. It then opens a file, if possible, whose name is the ntbs s (as if by calling fopen(s, modstr)). The ntbs modstr is determined from mode & ~ios_base::ate as indicated in Table 117. If mode is not some combination of flags shown in the table then the open fails.
| ios_base flag combination | stdio equivalent | ||||
| binary | in | out | trunc | app | |
| + | "w" | ||||
| + | + | "a" | |||
| + | "a" | ||||
| + | + | "w" | |||
| + | "r" | ||||
| + | + | "r+" | |||
| + | + | + | "w+" | ||
| + | + | + | "a+" | ||
| + | + | "a+" | |||
| + | + | "wb" | |||
| + | + | + | "ab" | ||
| + | + | "ab" | |||
| + | + | + | "wb" | ||
| + | + | "rb" | |||
| + | + | + | "r+b" | ||
| + | + | + | + | "w+b" | |
| + | + | + | + | "a+b" | |
| + | + | + | "a+b" | ||
If the repositioning operation fails, calls close() and returns a null pointer to indicate failure.
basic_filebuf* open(const string& s, ios_base::openmode mode);
basic_filebuf* open(const filesystem::path& s, ios_base::openmode mode);
basic_filebuf* close();
Effects: If is_open() == false, returns a null pointer. If a put area exists, calls overflow(traits::eof()) to flush characters. If the last virtual member function called on *this (between underflow, overflow, seekoff, and seekpos) was overflow then calls a_codecvt.unshift (possibly several times) to determine a termination sequence, inserts those characters and calls overflow(traits::eof()) again. Finally, regardless of whether any of the preceding calls fails or throws an exception, the function closes the file (as if by calling fclose(file)). If any of the calls made by the function, including fclose, fails, close fails by returning a null pointer. If one of these calls throws an exception, the exception is caught and rethrown after closing the file.