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I am using strings in a program I am writing, however whenever I try to make a string the return type of the function, I get tons of errors saying that its not a real type.
How would I make a string a return type?
BTW I am using minigw and codeblocks
Post one of the function which you return string
#include <string>
std::string myfunc(...)
If that doesn't work, show the appropriate code.
okay here is a function that doesn't even have string as a return type, but uses string and has it in the header, but it gets errors on every variable declared as a string!
Please helpCode:int Player::inventoryCatalogLookUp(int searchNumber)
{
string returnString;
string fileCatalogName = "\\inventoryCatalogy\\";
fileCatalogName.append(searchNumber);
// reading a text file
string line;
ifstream myfile (fileCatalogName);
if (myfile.is_open())
{
while (! myfile.eof() )
{
getline (myfile,line);
}
myfile.close();
return stringToInt(line);
}
else
{
//unable to openFile
return -1;
}
}
Except that...
ifstream myfile (fileCatalogName);
...should be...
ifstream myfile (fileCatalogName.c_str());
...there is little to tell the error.
Post the smallest possible compilable example that demonstrates the problem. And make sure you've included <string> before you use it anywhere.
when you #include <string> you get access to std::string. If you put using namespace std; after your #includes, then you can declare a string with string my_string;, otherwise you must declare strings with std::string my_string;. I would imagine getline() is giving you an error as well, for the same reason.