Thread: ambigious symbols??

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    ambigious symbols??

    wondering if anyone can help. i'm still trying to write a program where there are string variables. i have the following declerations
    #include <string>
    using namespace std;

    i understand this is all you have to do to use a string variable but for some reason when i make these declerations it says that cout, ifstream, and ofstream are all ambigious symbols, any idea what this means?

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    try including iostream
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