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In this example, the first read will not overflow, but could fill bufOne with a truncated string. Furthermore, the second read still could overflow bufTwo. The C++ Standard, [istream.extractors], paragraphs 7–9  [ISO/IEC 14882-2014], describes the behavior of operator>>(basic_istream &, charT *) and, in part [ISO/IEC 14882-2014]part, states the following:

operator>> then stores a null byte (charT()) in the next position, which may be the first position if no characters were extracted. operator>> then calls width(0).

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