The Microsoft Input/Output Stream Classes (iostream.hlp) (Table of Contents; Topic list)
ios::bad
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  int bad() const;
 
  Remarks
 
  Returns a nonzero value to indicate a serious I/O error. This condition
  corresponds to the badbit error state being set. Do not continue I/O
  operations on the stream in this situation.
 
  See Also
 
  ios::good, ios::fail, ios::rdstate
 
 
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