cout output wrong order and incomplete.

[rnodal]

Hello all:

My little c++ program is having a weird issue.

cout << "Searching SID's for " << airport_name << " ..." << "\n";

That line is supposed to output something that looks like this:

Searching SID's for MADEIRA ...

Instead I get:

...ching SID's for MADEIRA
As you can see it is replacing the first letters of the word Searching with the "...". Any clues why that is the case? Thanks a lot for your time.

-r

[LaRoza]

Hello all:

My little c++ program is having a weird issue.

cout << "Searching SID's for " << airport_name << " ..." << "\n";


I am guessing:



cout << "Searching SID's for " << airport_name << " ..." << endl;

Maybe that will work?

[rnodal]

Thanks for your replay :). I have tried that and also putting flush(cout) before that line but nothing seems to work. The line works like this:

cout << "Searching SID's for " << airport_name << "\n" << endl;
But that is not the output that I want.:confused: I don't know what could be causing the problem.


-r

[tseliot]

This code works well here:


#include <iostream>
#include <string>
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
using namespace std;
string airport_name = "MADEIRA";
cout << "Searching SID's for " << airport_name << " ..." << "\n";
return 0;
}

A screenshot (http://albertomilone.com/madeira.png).

[stroyan]

I expect that airport_name contains a carriage return character.
that makes the terminal move the cursor to the start of the line.
Then the "..." overwrites the front.
You should filter your airport_name value to remove control characters.

[rnodal]

That was it! I forgot to clean the string since it came from a file. Thanks a lot all for your help.

-r