initializing a C++ std::istringstream from an in memory buffer?

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It’s actually pretty trivial to write a one-shot std::streambuf that uses the buffer in place as the default behaviour of all the virtual functions of std::streambuf does ‘the right thing’. You can just setg the read area in construction and underflow and uflow can safely be left to return traits_type::eof() as the end of the initial get area is the end of the stream.

e.g.:

#include <streambuf>
#include <iostream>
#include <istream>
#include <ostream>

struct OneShotReadBuf : public std::streambuf
{
    OneShotReadBuf(char* s, std::size_t n)
    {
        setg(s, s, s + n);
    }
};

char hw[] = "Hello, World!\n";

int main()
{
    // In this case disregard the null terminator
    OneShotReadBuf osrb(hw, sizeof hw - 1);
    std::istream istr(&osrb);

    istr >> std::cout.rdbuf();
}

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