# User's Guide

## 3.9 Views

Boost.Iostreams provides a number of templates for combining one or more Filters or Devices to produce a Filter or Device that performs i/o by delegating to the given components in a straightforward way. Each view consists of a class template, whose template parameters represnt the component Filters and Devices, together with an object generator.

The views provided with Boost.Iostreams are summarized in the Quick Reference.

Revised 02 Feb 2008

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