Lets say that I have a text file with a bunch of numbers and I want to write a short program to process these number through some formulas, for the sake of simplicity lets say I just want to average ...

I am curious if Im on the right track. We are learning now writing and reading structures to files so this code is practice for that. I am assuming that when all this is done through, when i cout at ...

Buffered I/O: as with C's Standard Library, IO Channels provide user-side buffering, which minimizes the number of system call invocations and ensures that I/O is performed in optimally sized units.