A: Use operator overloading to present a friend right-shift operator, operator>>. It is similar to the output operator, except the parameter doesn't contain a const: "Fred&" instead of "const Fred&".

#include class Fred {

public:

friend std::istream& operator>> (std::istream& i, Fred& fred);

... private:

int i_; // Just for illustration

};

std::istream& operator>> (std::istream& i, Fred& fred)

{

return i >> fred.i_;

}

int main()

{

Fred f;

std::cout << "Enter a Fred object: ";

std::cin >> f;

...

}

Note  down that operator>> returns the stream. It is so the input operations may be cascaded and/or utilized in a while loop or if statement.