<< and>> in C++

Question

I don\'t quite understand what this means...I\'m just learning C++ from my very very very basic Python experience...and so this may be a very stupid question. My question i

Answer 1

Instead of saying

print "Hello" + "world"  #I know, you wouldn't actually do it like this.

where "print" is the command and "hello world" is your text,

c++ works as

cout << "Hello" << "World";  // or like this. But...

int i = 42;
cout << "The answer is: " << i;  //you may want to do this

c++ uses "cout" as the command and "<<" as a joiner, or, more technically, an operator used on the out stream.

cin works similarly where the >> is just an operator that works on the in stream.