Well, yes your right, we haven't been taught much in terms of string/file streams, just your basic cout/cin stuff.

But in any case, most of what i have learnt with regards to c++ has largely come out of books that i have purchased, such as c++ in 21 days, and also Herbert Scheidt's book. And these only seem to touch on it.

But yes, i know how important this knowledge is, and will do my best to read up on information from that link, despite its immense size :D

I actually use cplusplus all the time, love that site :D