“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

You need to use c_str to get c-string equivalent to the string content as printf does not know how to print a string object.

string s("bla");
printf("%s \n", s.c_str());

Instead you can just do:

string s("bla");
std::cout<