strings manipulations and file pointers

[Guest_imported]

I am doing some work in which I am trying to use strings and
substrings. Also, I need to read and write to files as well. However
there seems to be conflict such that I cannot do both at the same
time. The part of the code giving the error is as below:


#include <iostream.h>
#include <fstream.h>
#include <iomanip.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

main()
{
//variable definitions

char* folder1;
char* folder2;
char data[20] = &quot;christopher&quot;;
ofstream outfile;
ifstream inputfile;
string state;
string region;
string item8;
string item5a;
string item5b;
string item5c;
string item5d;
string item5e;
string item2
}

The error messages are:
'ofsteam': ambiguous symbol
'ifstream': ambiguous symbol

However the error goes away if I get rid of the &quot;namespace std&quot; line.
But once I get rid of that line, then all the string data type
definitions will generate an error. How do I get around that so as to
be able to use both.

Thanks

Chris

 

[bitwise]

Use <fstream> not fstream.h and read about using namespace std; You might want to do that for iostream as well.

-bitwise

 

[rbobbitt]

In the future, you'll probably get better results posting to one of the C++ forums if you have a C++ question.
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