◄ios► ◄Up► ◄Contents► ◄Index► ◄Back► ──The Microsoft iostream Classes──────────────────────────────────────────── 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► -♦-