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Reading and Displaying File Contents (Cont.)

Flag	Effect IF Set
`ios_base::basefield`	A constant that can be used as masks: `dec \| oct \| hex`
`ios_base::boolalpha`	Input/output bool objects as alphabetic names (true, false)
`ios_base::hex`	Input/output integer is in hexadecimal base format
`ios_base::showpoint`	Output floating-point values including always the decimal point
`ios_base::showbase`	Output integer values preceded by the numeric base
`ios_base::skipws`	Skip leading whitespaces on certain input operations.
`ios_base::uppercase`	Output uppercase letters replacing certain lowercase letters

while ( 1 ) { ... }
It is an infinite loop where the value 1 means the boolean value true.

istream >> char& ch;
The operator >> inherited from the class istream performs a formatted input operation (extraction). cin is the standard input stream.

bool eof( ) const;
It is a method inherited from the class ios and checks if End-Of-File has been reached.