“printf” on strings prints gibberish

Question

I\'m trying to print a string the following way:

int main(){
    string s(\"bla\");
    printf(\"%s \\n\", s);
         .......
}

but all I

Answer 1

Because %s indicates a char*, not a std::string. Use s.c_str() or better still use, iostreams:

#include 
#include 

using namespace std;

int main()
{
  string s("bla");
  std::cout << s << "\n";
}