Re: Newby: VC6 errors

From:
"Chizl" <Chizl@NoShitMail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:31:53 -0600
Message-ID:
<ePJcFE1bIHA.5984@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
You can't:
szOutput + components[i].i

use
szOutput.append(components[i].i);

"Blue Streak" <rdlebreton@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:a76c0a78-c22e-4698-938e-95ca311e265e@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

Hello,

I am trying to understand why this string concatenation is not
working. Could someone shed some light on this and tell me what I'm
doing wrong?

TIA..

---Errors:---
ParseLineDemo.cpp
C:\ParseLineDemo\ParseLineDemo.cpp(245) : error C2784: 'class
std::reverse_iterator<_RI,_Ty,_Rt,_Pt,_D> __cdecl std::operator +
(_D,const class std::reverse_iterator<_RI,_Ty,_Rt,_Pt,_D> &)' : could
not deduce template argument for '' from 'class
std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class
std::allocator<char> >'

C:\ParseLineDemo\ParseLineDemo.cpp(245) : error C2676: binary '+' :
'class std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class
std::allocator<char> >' does not define this operator or a conversion
to a type acceptable to the predefined operator

---ParseLineDemo.h---
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <string.h>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;

union POD //Plain Ordinary Data
{
int i;
float f;
};

class DataSegment
{
public:
DataSegment(){}; //default constructor
~DataSegment();
void setHeader(char dH[4]);
void Push(POD p);
string toString();
void Clear(); //empty out the object

private:
char dataHeader[4]; //the name of the segment e.g. S[ or D[
vector<POD> components;

};

---ParseLineDemo.cpp---
...

string DataSegment::toString()
{
string szOutput;
int i;
szOutput = dataHeader;
szOutput = szOutput + "[" //error occurs here
for (i = 0; i < components.size(); i++)
{
szOutput = szOutput + components[i].i + ",";
}

//remove last comma and add closing bracket
szOutput = szOutput.substr(0, szOutput.length() - 1) + "]";

return szOutput;
}

...

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