Question

I’m trying to figure out how to print a string several times. I’m getting errors. I just tried the line:

cout<<"This is a string.  "*2;

I expected the output: “This is a string. This is a string.”, but I didn’t get that. Is there anything wrong with this line? If not, here’s the entire program:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;


int main()
{
  cout<<"This is a string.  "*2;

  cin.get();
  return 0;
}

My compiler isn’t open because I am doing virus scans, so I can’t give the error message. But given the relative simplicity of this code for this website, I’m hoping someone will know if I am doing anything wrong by simply looking.

Thank you for your feedback.

Answer 1

Well, ideally, you would use a loop to do that in C++. Check for/while/do-while methods.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int count;
    for (count = 0; count < 5; count++) 
    { 
        //repeating this 5 times
        cout << "This is a string.  ";           
    }

    return 0;
}

Outputs:

This is a string.  This is a string.  This is a string.  This is a string.  This is a string.