syntax error of map?

Dear there, in my .cpp file, the compiler complains there is a syntax error for the last line? what's the error? thanks.

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <sstream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <deque>
#include <cassert>
#include <cstddef>
#include "commonio.hpp"
#include <map>
#define P(x) cout << #x << " : " << x << endl;
using namespace std;

typedef map<string, time_t> Prodrange;
Prodrange pstart, pend;
pstart["AUD_CAD"]=1191171604;

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What error does it say? There could be a number of things wrong with this snippet.

You can't have anything but declarations outside of functions.

hey, thanks for reply. all I want is a global look-up table, mapping string to time_t. For the code I attached, what I want is to be able to use

Code:

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pstart["USD_CAD"]

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wherever I need a time_t value.

Is there a good way to do it? Thanks.

You could set the values at the beginning of main. You could create a function that returns a map initialized with the data and initialize the map before main.

Code:

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map<std::string, int> globals = function_filling_map();

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Boost.Assign also has nice things for initializing containers, e.g:

Code:

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#include <boost/assign.hpp>

std::map<std::string, int> globals = boost::assign::map_list_of
    ("Hello", 1)
    ("world", 2)
    ("!", 3);

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I played a while trying the techniques suggested, it worked out. I further tried to use singleton to setup global variables. Eventually I said to myself, these are constants, not variables, so I fell back to the old and good enum. Thanks for the suggestions.