How to cout the std::basic_string

Question

I am trying to cout a basic_string. But cout is throwing error. Can I know how to do that

Answer 1

As dauphic said, std::wcout is for wide strings and std::cout for narrow ones. If you want to be able to compile for either type of string (TCHAR is meant to make this sort of thing easier) something like this sometimes makes life easier:

#if defined(UNICODE) || defined(_UNICODE)
#define tcout std::wcout
#else
#define tcout std::cout
#endif

With this in place use tcout instead.