what is the difference ...?

[yaaqub]

Hi, cout << "*"<< endl; and cout << '* '<

[RChin]

Well one's outputting a string and the other is outputting a character. so you could do this: std::cout<<"This string"< but this will surely give you problems: `std::cout<<'this is invalid'< * * * **I Dream of Absolute Zero**`

[PJ Arends]

The first one outputs a asterix because the double quotes denotes a char array, the second one is a little trickier because you are using a single quote to wrap two bytes. That means that the operator << is outputting a short (two bytes) instead of a char (one byte). Try this

cout << "asdf" << endl;
cout << 'asdf' << endl;

and you get the same type of result.

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[normanS]

Is 'asdf' valid? I thought single quotes only applied to single characters?