Thread: Outputting Multiple Lines with cout

I'm been working my way through my C++ book ("C++ Without Fear") for a second time. Something I've noticed is that in the example code, the guy often writes stuff like this:

Code:

cout << "Enter strings, separated by commas,";
cout << endl << "and press ENTER: ";

When that kind of thing could be written using less code, like this:

Code:

cout << "Enter strings, separated by commas,"
     << endl << "and press ENTER: ";

Is there a benefit to writing this kind of thing in the former way?

Thanks.

endl is different from \n

endl: Inserts a new-line character. Additionally, for buffered streams, endl flushes the buffer (i.e. writes all unwritten characters in the buffer to the output sequence, see ostream::flush).