Friday, October 14, 2011

Newlines

It isn't necessary to write multiple cout statements when you want a line break. This code

cout << endl;
cout << "Your random # is " << num << "." << endl;
cout << endl;


could be rewritten using the newline character, \n

cout << "\nYour random # is " << num << ".\n"
     << endl;


These two code snippets generate the same output: