How can I print the address of first character?

Question

Why the entire string is displayed as outcome? Why address of 1st character not getting printed? How can I print address of 1st character? Please help me.

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Answer 1

The << operator on std::cout will treat a char* as a null-terminated string. You will need to cast it to a void* to print the pointer value.

Try this:

#include 

int main()
{
    char x[6] = "hello";
    std::cout << static_cast(x);
}