AnsiString in Visual C++ ?

[hencox]

Hello!

In my project in Visual C++ I need to include an old header file that defines a struct that among other things uses AnsiString. The header file doesn't state any includes that might contain this class (or whatever it is).

I get a compiler error when trying to compile this. Is there something that I could replace AnsiString with?

Regards
Henrik

 

[apatterno]

If you're saying that you are trying to include the headers for a library that implements a class called 'AnsiString'.. well you might try the STL's 'std::string'. But if your code was heavily dependent on this 'AnsiString' type, you will probably have to update a lot of it.

_{I REALLY hope that helps.}
Will

 

[Wiggis]

AnsiString is a Borland Data Type that is not supported by Visual C++ and unfortunately you probably will have to change all occurances and update the methods called on them as most of them don't exist outside of Borland.
as apatterno said one alternative is to use the STL

regards
Dave

 

[hencox]

Thanks for your help!

I tried changing AnsiString to std::string, and using the include file <string> the errors are gone.