What's wrong with my funtion :(

I am building a server via Johnnie's Winsock Tutorial and I am trying to get this function to work

Code:

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#include <vector>
char *readLine(SOCKET TheSocket)
{
        vector<char> TheVector;
        char buffer;
        char *pChar;
        int BytesRecieved;
        while(true)
        {
                BytesRecieved=recv(TheSocket,&buffer,1,0);
                if(BytesRecieved<=0)
                {
                        MessageBox(0,"recv() returned nothing.","SocketIndication",MB_OK);
                        return NULL;
                }
                switch(buffer)
                {
                        case backKey:
                                if(TheVector.size()<0)
                                        TheVector.pop_back();
                        break;
                        case endStr:
                                pChar=new char[TheVector.size()+1];
                                memset(pChar,0,TheVector.size()+1);
                                for(int f=0;f<TheVector.size();f++)
                                {
                                        pChar[f]=TheVector[f];
                                }
                        break;
                        default:
                                TheVector.push_back(buffer);
                        break;
                }
        }
}

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But for some reason it won't compile, why? It seems fine to me. Any suggestions?

Oh yeah, I am using Dev-C++ if that is any help.

> But for some reason it won't compile, why?
Well how about posting your error messages?

> if(TheVector.size()<0)
My guess is you meant > 0

Also, where is the
return pChar;

> memset(pChar,0,TheVector.size()+1);
This is a very expensive way of setting the last byte to '\0', given that the loop which follows is just going to overwrite them all anyway.

It's saying vector undeclared and stuff like that, I am making that since the tutorial said that was a good way to know how large the item is that is being sent

using namespace std;

use std::vector

Thanks :) I'll go check that

alright, now I'm getting [Build Error] [My"] Error 1

Link to the libws2_32.a file. If you have, do it again. I don't know why you have to keep linking sometimes, but it seems you do a lot of the time.