A sixth noobie question-string?

[Noobie]

Various tutorials involve #include "string6.h" or #include <string>
I have Borland 5.02-what do I use?

The below code does not work at all and apparently the problem has to do with the fact that im trying to use a string

#include <iostream.h>
#include <string>

int main()
{
    string name;
    int ID;

    cout << "Enter your name ";
    cin >> name;

    cout << "Enter your ID number ";
    cin >> ID;

    cout << "Hello " << name << " or should I say " << ID << endl;

    return 0;
}

[Travis Dane]

I suggest you use a newer compiler because few can help you
with that old compiler. I suggest Dev c++.

[Noobie]

I cant afford a newer one :<

[Travis Dane]

The suggestion i made is a free compiler.Dev C++

[adrianxw]

Take the ".h" from the iostream header and add "using namespace std; under the string header. There are other ways of doing this...

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    string name;
    int ID;

    cout << "Enter your name ";
    cin >> name;

    cout << "Enter your ID number ";
    cin >> ID;

    cout << "Hello " << name << " or should I say " << ID << endl;

    return 0;
}

...look up namespaces in you help/book/tutorial.

[Travis Dane]

Originally posted by adrianxw
Take the ".h" from the iostream header and add "using namespace std; under the string header. There are other ways of doing this...

Problem is, he uses a VERY old compiler. And apperntly it doesnt
use <iostream> or <string>. Hopefully he'll follow my link. *hint*

[adrianxw]

Borlands current compiler is 5.5, so it's not really that old, (if that is what he means of course). If he can't use the standard header inclusion he'll have to use the ".h" style, but if he is using a truly ancient compiler, the std string classes might not be implemented.

[Noobie]

I got dev-c++ now but I get about a 1000 errors when i try to compile something

[Travis Dane]

Originally posted by Noobie
I got dev-c++ now but I get about a 1000 errors when i try to compile something

DEV C++ specific problems should be redirected to a DEV specific
forum, or you could adress the manual.

[Fountain]

Originally posted by adrianxw
Borlands current compiler is 5.5, so it's not really that old, (if that is what he means of course). If he can't use the standard header inclusion he'll have to use the ".h" style, but if he is using a truly ancient compiler, the std string classes might not be implemented.

Not quite. Our Uni has been running Borland 6.0 since Sept 2002. Just for info....

[adrianxw]

The compiler quoted on Borlands website is still 5.5...

http://www.borland.com/products/down...cbuilder.html#

...but whatever.

[Travis Dane]

Originally posted by adrianxw
The compiler quoted on Borlands website is still 5.5...

The .NET compiler isn't officialy finished yet either but you can
already get it.

[adrianxw]

>>> but you can already get it.

As I said, whatever, the point I was making is that if he, as he says, is using 5.02, it is not really all that old. I suspect he was not using that however, he probably has an old copy of Turbo C or something. It is immaterial anyway, he has downloaded, and is having trouble with Dev-C++ now!

http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showt...threadid=32798

[Travis Dane]

Yeah,know. Dev has getch() right? I posted some code for him to
test, haven't heard a reply yet.

[Eibro]

Various tutorials involve #include "string6.h" or #include <string>

Many new programmers get confused by all the string headers.. I know I was.

<string> contains the STL string definition
<string.h> depricated header which contains various functions for working with c-style strings (char *)
<cstring> essentially the same as <string.h> except its definitions are wrapped in namespace std. This, unlike string.h is a standard header. string.h is included in most modern compilers for the purposes of legacy code.