Formatting with cout
The ostream insertion operators convert values to text form. By default, they format values as follows:
• A type char value, if it represents a printable character, is displayed as a character in a field one character wide.
• Numeric integer types are displayed as decimal integers in a field just wide enough to hold the number and, if present, a minus sign.
• Strings are displayed in a field equal in width to the length of the string.
The default behavior for floating-point types has changed. The following are the differences between ancient and current C++ implementations:
• New style— Floating-point types are displayed with a total of six digits, except that trailing zeros aren’t displayed. (Note that the number of digits ...
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