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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 :...
Whew asked 21/1, 2013 at 3:19

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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...
Juggle asked 12/5, 2015 at 7:58

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I found this question already asked, but the answer everybody gives is std::cout << std::setw(5) << std::setfill('0') << value << std::endl; which is fine for positive nu...
Ontine asked 9/7, 2013 at 8:51

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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 ...
Metaxylem asked 23/3, 2009 at 12:42

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I am learning C++. I have a problem formatting the output of my program. I would like to print there columns perfectly aligned but so far I cannot do it, here is my code: int main() { employee em...
Hearsh asked 28/3, 2013 at 4:5

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can't get "wcout" to print unicode string in multiple code pages, together with leaving "cout" to work please help me get these 3 lines to work together. std::wcout<<&quot...
Skyros asked 8/4, 2014 at 23:54

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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 ...
Bari asked 16/8, 2012 at 14:28

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I'm wondering what is the efficient and smart way to output a string to console with variables. I know in C++20 there is std::format which makes this easy, but I'm unsure about C++17. For example, ...
Sauls asked 29/9, 2020 at 14:8

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I am learning C++, so you are very right to assume that I am new to C++ and programming as well. I am trying to understand iostream library, not the whole, but the things that newcomers must know b...
Middaugh asked 18/8, 2020 at 14:52

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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?
Spigot asked 11/11, 2009 at 11:12

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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...
Crusty asked 12/6, 2011 at 8:40

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If I want to write my own test.cpp that checks if another .cpp file is outputting the way I want it to output, is there anyway to do it without explicitly printing it? In other words, is there any...
Pretonic asked 28/10, 2016 at 3:52

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Is it possible on Windows without using WinAPI?
Alas asked 19/9, 2010 at 13:31

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First of all, sorry if this is in the wrong category, as I am not sure what the cause of this problem is. For educational purposes I have created a small "Hello World" application #include <...
Splashboard asked 10/11, 2019 at 13:48

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I'm coding a task monitoring, which updates tasks' progress using cout. I'd like to display one task progress per line, therefore I have to rollback several lines of the console. I insist on "seve...
Labbe asked 18/7, 2010 at 20:10

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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 b...
Melantha asked 28/7, 2019 at 12:27

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Is there a way in C++ to tell if std::cout and std::cerr are pointing to the same destination? That is, I'd like to be able to distinguish when the program is launched like program or program &g...
Wendt asked 26/6, 2019 at 14:46

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Why constexpr does not work with std::cout, but works with printf? #include <iostream> constexpr void f() { std::cout << ""; } //error constexpr void g() { printf(""); } //ok And why...
Sphygmograph asked 12/6, 2019 at 18:20

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I'm not new to programming but I am new to C++ using Xcode as the IDE. I am not allowed to use cout << "hello"; to print, the compiler complains and only works when I use std:cout <<. W...
Domela asked 5/10, 2013 at 20:43

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#include <iostream> #include <cstdlib> #include <cstdio> #include <ctime> int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { std::clock_t start; double duration; std::cout << "S...
Aleece asked 20/8, 2012 at 20:6

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I understand that to avoid output intermixing access to cout and cerr by multiple threads must be synchronized. In a program that uses both cout and cerr, is it sufficient to lock them separately? ...
Ulphiah asked 1/2, 2013 at 0:16

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I am writing a sorting program using a host of different functions as y'all can see from my declarations. However, I keep getting these same errors when I try to compile and run my program they a...
Preposition asked 3/4, 2014 at 21:0

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So I have a function (or rather, I'll turn it into a function later) to make a random % progress in a console window; like this: #include <iostream> #include <time.h> #include <cmat...
Kocher asked 19/5, 2013 at 14:33

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I am relatively new to the C++ world. I know std::cout is used for console output in C++. But consider the following code in C : #include<stdio.h> int main(){ double dNum=99.6678; printf(...
Nador asked 25/10, 2015 at 12:12

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Is there any circumstance when std::cout << "hello" doesn't work? I have a C++ program where std::cout doesn't seem to print anything, not even constant strings (such as "hello...
Harber asked 13/2, 2013 at 16:31

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