int main()
{
wchar_t p[]="Good Morning";
}

How to use cout on p.
That is, can I use cout<<p;

It's not working.

Can anybody suggest how to use cout on wchar_t type strings?

Thanks
Vignesh

"abbu" <vignesh_cn@rediffmail.com> wrote in message
news:1148395831.478182.220500@i39g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...[color=blue]
>
> int main()
> {
> wchar_t p[]="Good Morning";
> }
>
> How to use cout on p.
> That is, can I use cout<<p;
>
> It's not working.
>
> Can anybody suggest how to use cout on wchar_t type strings?[/color]

int main() {
wchar_t p[]="Good Morning";
std::wcout << p;
}

Mostly when it comes to wide strings you just use the normal funcs but add
"w" to the start.
eg.:

const char *str = "text";
printf(str);

const wchar_t *str = "text";
wprintf(str);

cout outputs a standard byte stream (ansi)
wcout outputs a wide stream (e.g. unicode)

//eric

abbu <vignesh_cn@rediffmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> int main()
> {
> wchar_t p[]="Good Morning";
> }
>
> How to use cout on p.
> That is, can I use cout<<p;
>
> It's not working.
>
> Can anybody suggest how to use cout on wchar_t type strings?[/color]

The following program works fine here:


#include <iostream>

int main()
{
wchar_t p[] = L"Good Morning";
std::wcout << p << '\n';
}



--
Marcus Kwok
Replace 'invalid' with 'net' to reply

After posting this i noticed that i made bad usage of printf and wprintf.

In case some people new to programming sees this, i better point out that
this is bad:

char *str = "text";
printf(str);

If str has "%s" inside it will crash the app.

Correct usage:

char *str = "text";
printf("%s", str);

//eric

* Marcus Kwok:[color=blue]
> abbu <vignesh_cn@rediffmail.com> wrote:[color=green]
>> int main()
>> {
>> wchar_t p[]="Good Morning";
>> }
>>
>> How to use cout on p.
>> That is, can I use cout<<p;
>>
>> It's not working.
>>
>> Can anybody suggest how to use cout on wchar_t type strings?[/color]
>
> The following program works fine here:
>
>
> #include <iostream>
>
> int main()
> {
> wchar_t p[] = L"Good Morning";
> std::wcout << p << '\n';
> }[/color]

g++ 3.4.4 on Windows does not support wide character streams.

Also be aware that what the wide characters streams do, is to convert to
narrow characters, in some /unspecified/ way.

--
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is it such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

Alf P. Steinbach <alfps@start.no> wrote:[color=blue]
> * Marcus Kwok:[color=green]
>> The following program works fine here:
>>
>>
>> #include <iostream>
>>
>> int main()
>> {
>> wchar_t p[] = L"Good Morning";
>> std::wcout << p << '\n';
>> }[/color]
>
> g++ 3.4.4 on Windows does not support wide character streams.
>
> Also be aware that what the wide characters streams do, is to convert to
> narrow characters, in some /unspecified/ way.[/color]

I guess I should have mentioned that this was using VC++ 7.1 (VS .NET
2003) on Windows XP.

Thanks for the info regarding wide streams. I never use them but this
example seemed easy enough to whip together.

--
Marcus Kwok
Replace 'invalid' with 'net' to reply

abbu wrote:[color=blue]
> int main()
> {
> wchar_t p[]="Good Morning";
> }[/color]

You need an L ahead of the text literal to make it wide.

Thanks eric.