wclog

Pre-defined stream

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Controls output to a stream buffer associated with the object stderr declared in <cstdio>.

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#include <iostream>
extern wostream wclog;
wostream wclog;

The object wclog controls output to a stream buffer associated with the object stderr declared in <cstdio>. The difference between wclog and wcerr is that wclog is buffered, but wcerr isn't. Therefore, commands like wclog << L"ERROR !!"; and fprintf(stderr,"ERROR !!"); are not synchronized. wclog uses the locale codecvt facet to convert the wide characters it receives to the tiny characters it outputs to stderr.

The formatting is done through member functions or manipulators. See cout, wcout or basic_ostream for details.

//
// wclog example
//
#include<iostream>
#include<fstream>

void main ( )
{
  using namespace std;   

  // open the file "file_name.txt"
  // for reading
  wifstream in("file_name.txt");
  
  // output the all file to stdout
  if ( in ) 
    wcout << in.rdbuf(); 
  else
    // if the wifstream object is in a bad state
    // output an error message to stderr
    wclog << L"Error while opening the file" << endl;  
}

wclog can be used to redirect some of the errors to another recipient. For example, you might want to redirect them to a file named my_err:

wofstream out("my_err");
if ( out )
  wclog.rdbuf(out.rdbuf());
else
  cerr << "Error while opening the file" << endl;

Then when you are doing something like wclog << L"error number x"; the error message is output to the file my_err. You can use the same scheme to redirect wclog to other devices.

If your compiler does not support namespaces, then you do not need the using declaration for std.

basic_ostream(3C++), iostream(3C++), basic_filebuf(3C++), cout(3C++), cin(3C++), cerr(3C++), clog(3C++), wcin(3C++), wcout(3C++), wcerr(3C++), iomanip(3C++), ios_base(3C++), basic_ios(3C++)

Working Paper for Draft Proposed International Standard for Information Systems--Programming Language C++, Section 27.3.2

ANSI X3J16/ISO WG21 Joint C++ Committee