chapter 1 listing 1.2

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562760 (2) Offline	Apr 23, 2018 @ 5:20 AM #1 Hi, I am following the code listings in chapter 1. I am seeing this line in listing 1.2 in.unsetf(std::ios_base::skipws); Do you know why it is necessary for reading the file? Is there any alternatives? Thanks
Ivan Cukic (104) Offline	Apr 23, 2018 @ 7:11 AM #2 Hmh, this means they haven't updated the 1st chapter in the MEAP. I hope they will finish the print preparation soon as this is a bit ridiculous. the unsetf thing was meant to make the stream not skip spaces while reading. After, I switched the implementation to istreambuf_iterator which behaves correctly when reading characters.
562760 (2) Offline	Apr 23, 2018 @ 1:03 PM #3 That works! Thank you. It looks like the gitlab repo also needs to be updated.