creating streams

[enterprize]

I want to create a stream for input and output, but without using an fstream or iostream, just something I can use the .peek() and .get() functions with.

Is there a way to get a stream that doesn't have any orientation?

[kbw]

There is, but you still have to open/close etc on them. It all depends on what stream you mean. The object isn't designed to bloat you code, it's designed to help you use different kinds of streams correctly with an identical syntax.

[enterprize]

Naturally. An example of how I want to use a stream is

void toArabic(char from[], int& to){
	ofstream out("H:\\Files\\blah.txt");
	for(unsigned int g=0; g<=strlen(from);g++)
		out<<from[g];
	out.close();
	ifstream in("H:\\Files\\blah.txt");
	char cur;

	while(!in.eof()){
		cur=in.get();
		switch (cur){
			case 'M':to+=1000;break;
			case 'C':
				switch(in.peek()){
					case 'M':to+=900;in.get();break;
					case 'D':to+=400;in.get();break;
					default:to+=100;break;
				}break;
			case 'D': to+=500;break;
			case 'X':
				switch(in.peek()){
					case 'C':to+=90;in.get();break;
					case 'L':to+=40;in.get();break;
					default:to+=10;break;
				}break;
			case 'L':to+=50;break;
			case 'I':
				switch(in.peek()){
					case 'X':to+=9;in.get();break;
					case 'V':to+=4;in.get();break;
					default:to+=1;break;
				}break;
			case 'V':to+=5;break;
		}
	}
	in.close();
}

the fact that in and out are assigned to files is completely irrelevant to the code.
So I want it to store the data into one stream where I can access it, without it doing other stuff (making a file).

[blackcoder41]

Why not use stringstream? http://cplusplus.com/reference/iostream/stringstream/

[kbw]

That's what istream and ostream are, streams who's details are obscured because you don't want to care.

That's why when you provide << and >> operators for streams you specify ostream/istream and not an ifstream/istringstream or any concrete stream.

You need to think more about your interface as you actually have an interface problem.