Re: ifstream::operator>>(std::string&) in VS2005

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Thu, 19 Apr 2007 15:43:51 -0400
Message-ID:
<eZivwvrgHHA.4992@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
potswa@yahoo.com wrote:

I'm new to Windows programming... I just installed VS2005 and it
complains that there's no such thing as
ifstream::operator>>(std::string&).


There has never been. Instead, there is a standalone function declared
in <string>:

template<class CharType, class Traits, class Allocator>
   basic_istream<CharType, Traits>& operator>>(
      basic_istream<CharType, Traits>& _Istr,
      basic_string<CharType, Traits, Allocator>& _Right
   );

Anyway is there something I can
install or some way to work around this?


Work around what? What exactly seems to be the problem?

Code snippet is

using namespace std;
string cellname;
ifstream netStream( argv[1] );
netStream >> cellname;

Quite simple! Error is

error C2679: binary '>>' : no operator found which takes a right-hand
operand of type 'std::string' (or there is no acceptable conversion)


You are missing

#include <string>

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