Re: Getting cout<<fixed to work.

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"P.J. Plauger" <pjp@dinkumware.com>

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Date:

Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:59:47 -0400

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"John Carson" <jcarson_n_o_sp_am_@netspace.net.au> wrote in message
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"cmay" <cmay@walshgroup.com> wrote in message
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Hello,

I am trying to write a very very very simple program with VC++ 6.

I have the following headers:
#include "stdafx.h"
#include "cmath"
#include "iostream.h"
#include "iomanip.h"

then trying to use:
cout << fixed
will produce the error
'fixed' : undeclared identifier.

This is after having turned off the "use precompiled headers".
Before, when I did have the use precompiled headers, using fixed
would compile, but it would actually write out a hex value when you
did count << fixed. Specifically, it would write 0x00401073.

I found that using setiosflag(ios::fixed) will work, but why doesn't
the normal fixed work?

Also, can anyone explain pre compiled headers, and why I need the
include "stdafx.h" and "using namespace std;" when nothing in my books
show these lines? I'm guessing its a VC++ thing, but can I do without
them?

Your compiler is old and your books are apparently even older.

C++ was standardized in 1998 and VC++ 6 is based on a draft of that
standard. It is non-standard in many respects, including the form of the
standard library and the way it handles templates.

Not entirely true. V6 comes with both a "traditional" C++ library,
with headers like iostream.h, and a (very close to) standard C++
library, with headers like iostream (and cmath, BTW). So you can
write:

#include <cmath>
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
using namespace std;

After which:

cout << fixed

does what you think it does.

P.J. Plauger
Dinkumware, Ltd.
http://www.dinkumware.com

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