Question

C++: Formatting output: Is it possible that I define an output operator such that cout outputs one way and an output stream to a file (using ofstream) outputs data another way?

Answer 1

I suppose you could just check for cout

if(os == std::cout) {
stdout stuff...
} else {
file stuff...
}

I think that will work, assuming os is std::ostream&

Answer 2

Thank you very much, that worked perfectly.