Questions tagged [cout]
std::cout is the global stream object provided by the C++ standard library for writing to the standard output stream.
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How do I print a double value with full precision using cout?
In my earlier question I was printing a double using cout that got rounded when I wasn't expecting it. How can I make cout print a double using full precision?
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How do I print out the contents of a vector?
How do I print out the contents of a std::vector to the screen?
A solution that implements the following operator<< would be nice as well:
template<container C, class T, String delim = "...
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How can I pad an int with leading zeros when using cout << operator? [duplicate]
I want cout to output an int with leading zeros, so the value 1 would be printed as 001 and the value 25 printed as 025. How can I do this?
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undefined reference to 'std::cout'
Shall this be the example:
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout << "Hola, moondo.\n";
}
It throws the error:
gcc -c main.cpp gcc -o edit main.o main.o: In ...
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cout is not a member of std
I'm practicing using mulitple files and header files etc. So I have this project which takes two numbers and then adds them. Pretty simple.
Here are my files:
main.cpp
#include <iostream>
#...
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uint8_t can't be printed with cout
I have a weird problem about working with integers in C++.
I wrote a simple program that sets a value to a variable and then prints it, but it is not working as expected.
My program has only two ...
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How to print to console when using Qt
I'm using Qt4 and C++ for making some programs in computer graphics. I need to be able to print some variables in my console at run-time, not debugging, but cout doesn't seem to work even if I add the ...
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C++ cout hex values?
I want to do:
int a = 255;
cout << a;
and have it show FF in the output, how would I do this?
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Why I cannot cout a string?
Why I cannot cout string like this:
string text ;
text = WordList[i].substr(0,20) ;
cout << "String is : " << text << endl ;
When I do this, I get the following error:
Error 2 ...
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What is the difference between cout, cerr, clog of iostream header in c++? When to use which one?
I tried researching the difference between cout, cerr and clog on the internet but couldn't find a perfect answer. I still am not clear on when to use which. Can anyone explain to me, through simple ...
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How to make C++ cout not use scientific notation
double x = 1500;
for(int k = 0; k<10 ; k++){
double t = 0;
for(int i=0; i<12; i++){
t += x * 0.0675;
x += x * 0.0675;
}
cout<<"Bas ana: "<<x&...
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'cout' was not declared in this scope [closed]
I have a C++ program:
test.cpp
#include<iostream>
int main()
{
char t = 'f';
char *t1;
char **t2;
cout<<t; //this causes an error, cout was not declared in this scope
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how do I print an unsigned char as hex in c++ using ostream?
I want to work with unsigned 8-bit variables in C++. Either unsigned char or uint8_t do the trick as far as the arithmetic is concerned (which is expected, since AFAIK uint8_t is just an alias for ...
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How to print Unicode character in C++?
I am trying to print a Russian "ф" (U+0444 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER EF) character, which is given a code of decimal 1092. Using C++, how can I print out this character? I would have thought something ...
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C++ printing boolean, what is displayed?
I print a bool to an output stream like this:
#include <iostream>
int main()
{
std::cout << false << std::endl;
}
Does the standard require a specific result on the stream (e....
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C++ alignment when printing cout <<
Is there a way to align text when printing using std::cout? I'm using tabs, but when the words are too big they won't be aligned anymore.
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Why is address of char data not displayed?
class Address {
int i ;
char b;
string c;
public:
void showMap ( void ) ;
};
void Address :: showMap ( void ) {
cout << "address of int :" <&...
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what does cout << "\n"[a==N]; do?
In the following example:
cout<<"\n"[a==N];
I have no clue about what the [] option does in cout, but it does not print a newline when the value of a is equal to N.
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how does cout << actually work?
I was wondering how std::cout is able to use << as it does.
My main puzzlement is with whether std::cout as an instance of something. Basically, how is << defined? If I do this for a ...
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mixing cout and printf for faster output
After performing some tests I noticed that printf is much faster than cout. I know that it's implementation dependent, but on my Linux box printf is 8x faster. So my idea is to mix the two printing ...
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Floating point format for std::ostream
How do I do the following with std::cout?
double my_double = 42.0;
char str[12];
printf_s("%11.6lf", my_double); // Prints " 42.000000"
I am just about ready to give up and use sprintf_s.
More ...
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c++ force std::cout flush (print to screen)
I have code such as the following:
std::cout << "Beginning computations..."; // output 1
computations();
std::cout << " done!\n"; // output 2
The problem, however, is ...
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std::cout to print character N times
How can I print a character N number of times using std::cout without looping?
Is there a way to move the text cursor back to nullify the effect of std::cout << std::endl;? i.e. to move up a ...
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getting cout output to a std::string
I have the following cout statement. I use char arrays because I have to pass to vsnprintf to convert variable argument list and store in Msg.
Is there any way we can get cout output to C++ std::...
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How to remove last character put to std::cout?
Is it possible on Windows without using WinAPI?
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cout or printf which of the two has a faster execution speed C++?
I have been coding in C++ for a long time. I always wondered which has a faster execution speed printf or cout?
Situation: I am designing an application in C++ and I have certain constraints such as ...
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std::cout won't print
Is there any circumstance when std::cout << "hello" doesn't work? I have a c/c++ code, however the std::cout doesn't print anything, not even constant strings (such as "hello").
Is there any ...
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How to cout a float number with n decimal places [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I print a double value with full precision using cout?
float a = 175.;
cout << a;
If I run the previous code I'll get just 175, how can I cout the number with ...
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Why is '\n' preferred over "\n" for output streams?
In this answer we can read that:
I suppose there's little difference between using '\n' or using "\n", but the latter is an array of (two) characters, which has to be printed character by ...
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Type of ternary expression
Can anyone explain the output of the following program:
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int test = 0;
cout << "First character " << '1' << endl;
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How do I correctly organize output into columns?
The first thing that comes to my mind is to do a bunch of \t's, but that would cause words to be misaligned if any word is longer than any other word by a few characters.
For example, I would like to ...
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how to print a string to console in c++
Im trying to print a string to console in c++ console application.
void Divisibility::print(int number, bool divisible)
{
if(divisible == true)
{
cout << number << " is ...
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cout << order of call to functions it prints?
the following code:
myQueue.enqueue('a');
myQueue.enqueue('b');
cout << myQueue.dequeue() << myQueue.dequeue();
prints "ba" to the console
while:
myQueue.enqueue('a');
myQueue.enqueue('...
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How does C++ interpret a cout with a '+' in it?
I've been moving back and forth with Java/C++ so I messed up with my console output and accidentally wrote lines like:
cout << "num" + numSamples << endl;
cout << "max" + ...
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Why does this output of the same expression from printf differ from cout?
I'm using Visual C++ 2012 and compiling from the command line the following files:
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("%.5f", 18/4+18%4);
return 0;
}
Linking with MSVCRT.LIB ...
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cout not printing unsigned char
I am working on below code:
#include<iostream>
#include<stdio.h>
using namespace std;
main() {
unsigned char a;
a=1;
printf("%d", a);
cout<<a;
}
It is printing 1 ...
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Why is the address of this volatile variable always at 1?
I wanted to inspect the address of my variable
volatile int clock;
cout << &clock;
But it always says that x is at address 1. Am i doing something wrong??
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Float formatting in C++
How do you format a float in C++ to output to two decimal places rounded up? I'm having no luck with setw and setprecision as my compiler just tells me they are not defined.
cout << "Total :...
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Insight into how things get printed onto the screen (cout,printf) and origin of really complex stuff that I can't seem to find on textbooks
I've always wondered this, and still haven't found the answer. Whenever we use "cout" or "printf" how exactly is that printed on the screen?. How does the text come out as it does...(probably quite a ...
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How to get console output in Visual Studio 2012 Unit Tests
I have a managed C++ unit test in VS 2012. The test runs fine and I can
verify that a loop with multiple cout calls is executed.
However when I look at the test explorer the test is marked as passed
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How to disable cout output in the runtime?
I often use cout for debugging purpose in many different places in my code, and then I get frustrated and comment all of them manually.
Is there a way to suppress cout output in the runtime?
And ...
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Is std::cout buffered?
Just reading an old but interesting article by "Scott Meyers"
http://aristeia.com/Papers/C++ReportColumns/novdec95.pdf
Basically it is about preferring to use '\n' over std::endl (which I agree ...
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What is the difference between std::cout and std::wcout?
In c++ what is the difference between std::cout and std::wcout?
They both control output to a stream buffer or print stuff to the console, or are they just alike ?
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std::cout equivalent at compile time, or static_assert stringification of compile-time constant values in c++11
Is there a way to print the value of a constexpr or #defined value at compile time? I want the equivalent of std::cout <<, or some way to do something like
constexpr int PI_INT = 4;
...
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How do I use for_each to output to cout?
Is there a more straight-forward way to do this?
for_each(v_Numbers.begin(), v_Numbers.end(), bind1st(operator<<, cout));
Without an explicit for loop, if possible.
EDIT:
How to do this for ...
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Hide user input on password prompt [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Read a password from std::cin
I don't work normally with the console, so my question is maybe very easy to answer or impossible to do .
Is it possible to "decouple" cin and ...
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Why is std::cout not printing the correct value for my int8_t number?
I have something like:
int8_t value;
value = -27;
std::cout << value << std::endl;
When I run my program I get a wrong random value of <E5> outputted to the screen, but when I run ...
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Very simple program not working in c++?
I can't figure out why this isn't working...
I am working in Linux
g++ doesn't do anything
gcc prints the following:
/tmp/ccyg7NDd.o: In function `main':
test.cc:(.text+0x14): undefined reference ...
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Called a function with "cout" statement inside a "cout" statement
I came across this rather vague behavior when messing around with code , here's the example :
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int print(void);
int main(void)
{
cout << "...
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