Transcription: The input operator, also called the put to or extraction operator, extracts characters from its first operand, a stream object, converts these characters to the type of its second operand, usually a variable, and places this value in the second operand. In this example, the first operand is the predefined stream Cin. The input operator extracts characters from Cin, converts them to an integer value, and This is this value in the integer i.