Printing a 2D std::string array

Question

I am trying to initialize a tic-tac-toe board in c++ but the output always gives me hexa values. Is there a way to transform them into actual string values ?

#include <iostream>
#include<string>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    string tab[5][5] = { "1","|","2","|","3",
                         "-","+","-","+","-",
                         "4","|","5","|","6",
                         "-","+","-","+","-",
                         "7","|","8","|","9" };

    for(int i = 0; i <= 24; i++)
    {
        cout << tab[i] << endl;
    }
}

Answer 1

You're sending the value of tab[i] to cout, so you're getting the memory address.

You probably want to get the items nested deeper, like tab[i][j].

Answer 2

tab[i] is a std::string[] - that is, an array of std::string rather than a std::string itself.

Use ranged-for instead for your output. As well as the Standard Library containers, it works with built-in arrays:

for (const auto &row : tab) {
  for (const auto &c : row) {
    cout << c;
  }
  cout << endl;
}