From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: please help with error "int main()"
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:45:03 -0800
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brannon AT camalott DOT com wrote:

> error message looks like this
> 
> hello5.cpp: in function 'int main()':
> hello5.cpp:5: parse error before ')'

Look at the error.  It is saying, "on line 5, I encountered a close
parenthesis that made me stop."

This is line 5:

    cout << "Hello World!\n");

See the dangling close parenthesis?

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