Question

I have a small school assignment. My output is not correct. Can you see if I’m doing anything wrong?

//1. Create a char pointer named cp
char *cp;

//2. Dynamically allocate a char and store its address in cp
char dynamicChar = 'A';
cp = &dynamicChar;

//3. Write the character 'x' into the char
*cp = 'x';

//4. Print out the value of the char using cout
cout << cp << endl;

The print out statement prints A@@ instead of just A. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.

Answer 1

Try

cout << *cp << endl;

You want to print the character, not the pointer to it. When you hand it the pointer, cout thinks you’re telling it to print out a character array starting there.