Re: compiler errors on iterator

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red floyd <no.spam.here@its.invalid>

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comp.lang.c++

Date:

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:19:19 -0700

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On 8/16/2010 10:52 AM, frankz wrote:

On Aug 16, 11:25 am, "Leigh Johnston"<le...@i42.co.uk> wrote:

"frankz"<frank.zhu.min...@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:58254fa8-fc62-4162-b3ae-4d0161d9c442@h25g2000vba.googlegroups.com...

Below is a piece of code that I abstracted from a C++ book but doesn't
compile. If I substitute template class T with int type, it compiles.
Don't know why?

#include<iostream>

#include<iterator> // for iterator

using std::cout;

using std::cin;

using std::endl;

#include<vector>

template<class T>

void printVector( const std::vector<T> &vec)

{

    std::vector<T>::const_iterator i;

    for (i=vec.begin(); i!= vec.end();i++)

        cout<< *i<< " ";

}

g++ -Wall -o "stl" "stl.cpp"
stl.cpp: In function ?void printVector(const std::vector<T,
std::allocator<_CharT> >&)?:
stl.cpp:13: error: expected ?;? before ?i?
stl.cpp:14: error: ?i? was not declared in this scope
Compilation failed.

Try

typename std::vector<T>::const_iterator i;

/Leigh

Thanks a lot! Can you explain why? btw The original code is from "C++
How to program"

Yes, It's a FAQ. Please see the FAQ, in particular FAQ 35.18

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite

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