Difference between \n and endl.

Question

I dont seem to understand the difference between /n and endl,in the beginning of sololearn c++ tutorials,They use endl,But in the textbook I have they use \n. What is the difference between them?Help of any sort is appreciated.Thanks for reading.

Answer 1

Yes, they're different.

"\n" is just a string of length 1 that gets appended to stdout.

std::endl, instead, is an object that will cause to append the newline character ("\n") AND to flush stdout buffer. For this reason it will take more processing

-peoro at stackoverflow.com