Exploring unformatted input and output

Not every string input needs to be converted into some binary value. Often, we simply need to read or write strings without any additional formatting. There is a family of unformatted string I/O functions that can be used to read or write entire lines of characters without any formatting applied. However, these functions require each string to be formed into lines. A line is loosely defined as a string that is terminated by the <newline> character. Each of these has a console version as well as a file/stream version. For the remainder of this chapter, we will briefly explore this family of functions.