Thread: Cout on more than one line

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    Cout on more than one line

    Is it possible to output data on more than one line or is it mandatory that each niew line of text be accompanied by a cout << statement. Thanks

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    Do you mean -

    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    
    using namespace std;
    
    int main ( ) {
      
    	cout << "This sentence"
    		" is on"
    		" more than one"
    		" line.";
    
      return 0;
    }
    or

    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    
    using namespace std;
    
    int main ( ) {
      
    	cout << "This sentence\nis on\nmore than one\nline.";
    
      return 0;
    }
    ?

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    #include <iostream.h>

    void main()
    {
    cout << "Hello "
    "this is perfectly "
    "alright";
    cout << "\nSo"
    << "is"
    << "this";
    }

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    oh so you can have more that one string on cout......interesting I wonders why books don't touch on this.
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    Thanks for the information there-even though it was not my question! I have 'removed' lots of cout << from my latest program code.....I never knew that...................used lots of \n but not the other way you described. Thanx
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    Most books do tell you how to do this...Although it isn't very useful. You can just do this:

    cout << "hello" << " my" << " friend";
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