void clear ( iostate state = goodbit ); 

Set error state flags

Sets a new value for the error control state.

All the bits in the control state are replaced by the new ones; The value existing before the call has no effect.

If the function is called with goodbit as argument (which is the default value) all error falgs are cleared.

The current state can be obtained with member function rdstate.

Parameters

state

An object of type ios_base::iostate that can take as value any combination of the following state flag member constants:

flag value	indicates
eofbit	End-Of-File reached while performing an extracting operation on an input stream.
failbit	The last input operation failed because of an error related to the internal logic of the operation itself.
badbit	Error due to the failure of an input/output operation on the stream buffer.
goodbit	No error. Represents the absence of all the above (the value zero).

These values are declared as static member constants in the parent class ios_base.

More than one state flag can be combined using the bitwise | (or) operator.

If this parameter is not specified, goodbit is assumed, so that any existing error state value is cleared.

Return Value

Example

// clearing errors
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

int main () {
  char buffer [80];
  fstream myfile;

  myfile.open ("test.txt",fstream::in);

  myfile << "test";
  if (myfile.fail())
  {
    cout << "Error writing to test.txt\n";
    myfile.clear();
  }

  myfile.getline (buffer,80);
  cout << buffer << " successfully read from file.\n";

  return 0;
}

In this example myfile is open for input operations, but we perform an output operation on it, so failbit is set. The example calls then clear in order to remove the flag and allow further operations like getline to be successfully performed on myfile.

Basic template member declaration

void clear ( iostate state = goodbit );

See also