Thread: im a noob at c++, do you think so?

i cannot figure out why this keeps happening when I compile


BEL-RASHOs-MacBook-Proesktop belrasho$ g++ lab10.cpp -o lab10
lab10.cpp:1: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:1: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:1: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:1: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:1: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:2: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:2: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:2: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:2: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:3: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:3: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:3: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:3: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:4: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:4: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:4: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:4: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:4: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:5: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:6: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:6: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:6: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:6: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:8: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:8: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:8: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:8: error: stray ‘#’ in program
lab10.cpp:8:34: warning: backslash-newline at end of file
lab10.cpp:8: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:8: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:8: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:8: error: stray ‘\’ in program
lab10.cpp:1: error: expected unqualified-id before ‘{’ token
BEL-RASHOs-MacBook-Proesktop belrasho$

What are you using to edit your code? Show us the first line of your lab10.cpp file.

Just as a wild guess, did you use a word processor (as opposed to a text editor) to write your code?

I am using text editor on my macbrook pro.

the first line of my file is #include<iostream>


so far, i have figured out that the text editor is adding '/' for why? i dont know.

You mean TextEdit? What format are you saving the file as?

thanks to everyones' effort. after hours of research, I have figured out a soultion to my problem.

text editor was inserting invisible and non removable characters '/' into my code.

By downloading textwrangler, it saved all my codes as a uTF-8 no bom.

GO TO DOWNLOADS.COM to get textwrangler. I suggest using it instead of texteditor.

Im a mac user