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Hi friends, trying to pass an ifstream to a function expecting an ostream...Should this be a problem?

ifstream fleetin;
fleetin.open (filename);

read(fleetin);

//Error....
: cannot convert parameter 1 from 'std::ifstream' to 'std::ostream &'

My parameter is declared as ostream&, or maybe i should just remove the '&', but thought it's a good practice to pass reference params

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oops! my bad, should be 'istream', not ostream...

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>>or maybe i should just remove the '&', but thought it's a good practice to pass reference params

Don't remove the & because open streams must be passed by reference.

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