Why I cannot cout a string?

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Why I cannot cout string like this:

string text ;
text = WordList[i].substr(0,20) ;
cout << "String is  : " << text << endl ;

When I do this, I get the following error:

Error 2 error C2679: binary '<<' : no operator found which takes a right-hand operand of type 'std::string' (or there is no acceptable conversion) c:\users\mollasadra\documents\visual studio 2008\projects\barnamec\barnamec\barnamec.cpp 67 barnamec**

It is amazing, that even this is not working:

string text ;
text = "hello"  ;
cout << "String is  : " << text << endl ;
cout c++ string
7 Answers

Above answers are good but If you do not want to add string include, you can use the following 

ostream& operator<<(ostream& os, string& msg)
{
os<<msg.c_str();

return os;
}
user_40579610

Use c_str() to convert the std::string to const char *.

cout << "String is  : " << text.c_str() << endl ;
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