std::streamsize
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The type std::streamsize is a signed integral type used to represent the number of characters transferred in an I/O operation or the size of an I/O buffer. It is used as a signed counterpart of std::size_t, similar to the POSIX type ssize_t.
Except in the constructors of std::strstreambuf, negative values of std::streamsize are never used.
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|    returns number of characters extracted by last unformatted input operation  (public member function of std::basic_istream) 
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|    extracts and discards characters until the given character is found  (public member function of std::basic_istream) 
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|    extracts blocks of characters  (public member function of std::basic_istream) 
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|    inserts blocks of characters  (public member function of std::basic_ostream) 
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