[SOLVED] What's the difference?

Question

Here are two methods of printing and getting input from user I have seen till now..

1) printf()
scanf()

2) cout
cin

Can someone please explain the difference?

Answer 1

a Wolf are they interchangeable?

can I use printf() and scanf() in C++?

Answer 2

Jacob Tracey
What did you mean `cout` doesn't support formatted string? what kind of formatted string were you talking about?

Answer 3

Jacob Tracey
Perhaps an example? I am still not understanding your point here ...

Answer 4

a Wolf Thank you so much

Answer 5

Jacob Tracey
I thought it was about string interpolation. What a surprise if it's true, cause I never knew C language supports string interpolation

Answer 6

Jacob Tracey thank you