Borland Vs VC6 & Cout

[JohnStep]

I have been using Borlands complier for sometime now. Just recently started using VC6. I have a quick question while using the Cout command with VC6 it gives me errors:

Cout >> "Hi";

but if I use the printf command it works fine. Any ideas what I am doing wring in the IDE so the Cout errors?? And yes I am including <iostream.h>

 

[Bones3]

using namespace std;

-Bones

 

[uolj]

cout is all lower case. That is why it is not working. Also, the line should be

cout << "Hi";

Notice the "<<" instead of ">>".

Also, if you are including <iostream.h>, you might want to consider changing to <iostream>. The one without the ".h" is new and standard and the one you are using may not work on newer compilers as they come out. If you do use <iostream>, you must put std::cout instead of cout, or as Bones suggested put

using namespace std;

under the #includes.

Here's an example program:

#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    std::cout << "This program works!" << std::endl;
    return 0;
}

Or

#include <iostream>
using namepsace std;

int main()
{
    cout << "This program works!" << endl;
    return 0;
}

 

[Cagliostro]

A small question, is Cout >> "Hi"; a valid expression in BorlandC++?

Ion Filipski

 

[JohnStep]

Ion,

Yes you can get the library for cout for Borland c++ builder. So yes it works. I have been trying to take some of my code from BC to VC and even the most mundane code is not compiling with VC++. I even used some of the examples on this thread and they are giving me fits. I'm starting to wonder if my copy of VDS is not complete when it comes to VC++. VB seems to work fine. Thanks to all who has responded!

John Stephens

 

[Bones3]

Wow, that's intereting. You might also want to look through the VC++ forum here as well. Once you get comfortable with VC++ let me know which one is better!

-Bones