C++: printf Vs cout

Ying Yang

Hi,

Whats the difference between printf and cout? They both seem to do the same
thing.
Regards
dsfg

Jul 19 '05 #1

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Ying Yang wrote:

Hi,

Whats the difference between printf and cout? They both seem to do
the same thing.

Please check if this answers your question:
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lit....html#faq-15.1

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Jul 19 '05 #2

Anthony

Hi,
There is a whole book written about streams (cout).
Think you'll find your answer there.
http://www.langer.camelot.de/IOStrea...cerpt.htm#Main

If that's not enough, here is a link to a very good c++ book (also available
online)
http://mindview.net/Books/DownloadSites
The second edition of this book contains a chapter about streams.
You will find the printf vs cout here.

Greetingz
Anthony
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news:3f********@news.iprimus.com.au...

Hi,

Whats the difference between printf and cout? They both seem to do the same thing.
Regards
dsfg

Jul 19 '05 #3

tom_usenet

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 20:54:46 +0930, "Ying Yang" <Yi******@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Hi,

Whats the difference between printf and cout? They both seem to do the same
thing.

printf << "Hello"; //error
cout("%s", "Hello"); //error

In other words, they have completely different syntax. C++ has both, C
only has printf.

In high level terms, the main differences are type safety (cstdio
doesn't have it), performance (most iostreams implementations are
slower than the cstdio ones) and extensibility (iostreams allows
custom output targets and seamless output of user defined types).

Tom

Jul 19 '05 #4

Kevin Goodsell

Anthony wrote:

Hi,

Please don't top-post. Read section 5 of the FAQ for posting guidelines.

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lit...t.html#faq-5.4

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Jul 19 '05 #5

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