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Whitespace is a term that refers to characters that are used for formatting purposes. In C++, this refers primarily to spaces, tabs, and (sometimes) newlines. The C++ compiler generally ignores whitespace, with a few minor exceptions.

Consequently, the following statements all do the exact same thing:

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cout << "Hello world!";

cout << "Hello world!";

cout << "Hello world!";

cout
<< "Hello world!";
Even the last statement with the newline in it compiles just fine.

The following functions all do the same thing:

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int add(int x, int y) { return x + y; }

int add(int x, int y) {
return x + y; }

int add(int x, int y)
{ return x + y; }

int add(int x, int y)
{
return x + y;
}
One exception where the C++ compiler does pays attention to whitespace is inside quoted text, such as "Hello world!".

"Hello world!"
is different than

"Hello world!"
and each prints out exactly as you
 
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