Thread: Simple cout query from a newbie

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    Simple cout query from a newbie

    Just going through a tutorial and saw this code

    Code:
    cout << "Here is 5: " << 5 << "\n";
    And heres a quote about it

    Next, the value 5 is passed to the insertion operator and the newline character (always in double quotes or single quotes).
    Is there any reason why you would just do this?

    Code:
    cout << "Here is 5: " << "5\n";
    Or is the book I have just being an ass?

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    or for that matter

    cout << "Here is 5: 5\n";

    the book is showing that not just strings, but ints can also be displayed by cout
    hello, internet!

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    I see that does seem to be the case as it goes on to show how you can do additions and other similar things aswell

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    another example would be
    Code:
    int x;
    x = 5;
    cout << "here is the value of x: " << x;

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    another example could be:

    Code:
    cout << "2 + 2 = " << 2 + 2 << '\n';
    Couldn't think of anything interesting, cool or funny - sorry.

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