Why does cout print char arrays differently from other arrays?

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It’s the operator<< that is overloaded for const void* and for const char*. Your char array is converted to const char* and passed to that overload, because it fits better than to const void*. The int array, however, is converted to const void* and passed to that version. The version of operator<< taking const void* just outputs the address. The version taking the const char* actually treats it like a C-string and outputs every character until the terminating null character. If you don’t want that, convert your char array to const void* explicitly when passing it to operator<<:

cout << static_cast<const void*>(arr2) << endl;

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