class declaration

[Emtiaz]

I was confused in the following declaration of f. Is f variable, if yes then what type of var? Thanks.

int main()
{
ios::fmtflags f;
f = cout.flags();
}

[Disch]

Yes... f is a variable.

It is of type ios::fmtflags, which is a class, similar to std::vector or std::string.