concatenate stringstream in c++

Question

How can I concatenate two stringstreams?

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Answer 1

The question was "how to concatenate STREAMS", the answers explained how to concatenate the contents of the streams. Here is a class which can be used to concatenate two istreams into one istream (file ConcatStreams.h):

class ConcatStreams
: public std::streambuf {
std::streambuf* sbuf1_;
std::streambuf* sbuf2_;
char*           buffer_;
int useBuf;
int bufSize;
public:
ConcatStreams(std::streambuf* sbuf1, std::streambuf* sbuf2)
    : bufSize(1024), sbuf1_(sbuf1), sbuf2_(sbuf2), buffer_(new char[bufSize]), useBuf(1) {
}
ConcatStreams(const ConcatStreams& orig);
virtual ~ConcatStreams() { delete[] this->buffer_; }
int underflow() {
    if (this->gptr() == this->egptr()) {
        // get data into buffer_, obtaining its input from
        // this->sbuf_; if necessary resize buffer
        // if no more characters are available, size == 0.
        std::streamsize size=0;
        if(useBuf==1) {
            size = this->sbuf1_->sgetn(this->buffer_, bufSize);
            if(!size) { useBuf++;}
        } 
        if(useBuf==2) {
            size = this->sbuf2_->sgetn(this->buffer_, bufSize);
            if(!size) { useBuf++;}
        }
        this->setg(this->buffer_, this->buffer_, this->buffer_ + size);
    }
    return this->gptr() == this->egptr()
         ? std::char_traits::eof()
         : std::char_traits::to_int_type(*this->gptr());
 }
};

To use it:

#include "ConcatStreams.h"
istringstream msgIn1("this is a stream.");
istringstream msgIn2("this is another stream.");
ConcatStreams cs(msgIn1.rdbuf(), msgIn2.rdbuf());
istream msgIn(&cs);
cout << "'" << msgIn.rdbuf() << "'" << endl;

Basically the class uses the streambuf's from the streams passed to it to create a new streambuf which first reads the first streambuf and then reads the second streambuf when finished with the first one.