Thread: setprecision()

I have been tricked! setprecision() does not change the amount of decimals being printed out, it changes the amount of numbers to be printed out. E.g:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
	cout<<setprecision(5)<<24.435166;
	cin.get();
	return 0;
}

Would output 24.435 (5 numbers) instead of 24.43517 (5 decimals).
printf() can do this simply by using %.5f, so how do you do it with cout?

before the cout add:
cout.setf(ios::fixed);