Char pointer cout = garbage

[Toxn]

Can someone explain why this return the char 'a' followed by a bunch of gibberish? For all other data types it responds with the memory address of test.

char test = 'a';
char *testPtr = &test;

cout << testPtr << endl;

[Athar]

That's because in the case of char* it will interpret the address as the start of a C string.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_string

[LB]

It will keep printing until it reaches a null character, so a lot of what it prints will be garbage.

[Toxn]

Thanks!