formating using fixed<<showpoint

[Nobody/Anonymous]

I was trying to format my output by using fixed<<showpoint.  The compiler doesn't recognize this.  I have included <iomanip>.  Is there something else I shoud include.

Thanks Kristin

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Use this instead:

cout << setiosflags(ios::fixed | ios::showpoint);

I may be wrong, but I don't think the plain 'fixed' and 'showpoint' are standard ANSI C++.  I've seen it around, but I suspect that it may be a Microsoft corruption of the language...  Can anyone here confirm this, or else post a reference to the ANSI C++ standard about it (if it is indeed part of the standard)?

qWake

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Use this instead:

cout << setiosflags(ios::fixed | ios::showpoint);

I may be wrong, but I don't think the plain 'fixed' and 'showpoint' are standard ANSI C++.  I've seen it around, but I suspect that it may be a Microsoft corruption of the language...  Can anyone here confirm this, or else post a reference to the ANSI C++ standard about it (if it is indeed part of the standard)?

qWake

[Nobody/Anonymous]

qWake,

I have mostly seen it in the form you showed it, though, to tell the truth, when I have had to control my prints, I have tended to use printf.  Its weird, but I feel more comfortable with that.

Wayne (the weird)

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Try   setf.cout (ios::fixed | ios::showpoint);

[Nobody/Anonymous]

oops this is right  ...  cout.setf (ios::fixed | ios::showpoint);

[Nobody/Anonymous]

This is to show use. play the the number in setprecision.
the cout.setf(ios::fixed,ios::showpoint); sets the flag for every time you use cout  from   cout.setf(ios::fixed,ios::showpoint);   down.
 
 
 

#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
  cout.setf(ios::fixed | ios::showpoint);
  double xnan = 13.72;
  int numb;
  double num;
  numb = rand()%14307;
  num = (numb / xnan);
  cout << setprecision(6)<< num << endl;  
system("PAUSE");
  return 0;
}

[Nobody/Anonymous]

You're not so weird Wayne, I also find printf easier to use for formatted output.  The printf formatting tokens may be more obscure to new programmers than the clearer "setprecision(2)" found in C++, but they are much more compact.

qWake